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2010 Supreme(All) 1906

[2010(6) ADJ 414]
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : SANJAY MISRA, J.
BRAHMA WATI AND OTHERS …Petitioners
Versus
JAI PRAKASH AND OTHERS ….Respondents
(Second Appeal No. 3153 of 1984, decided on 26th May, 2010)

Advocates:
Counsel :
R.K. Jain, B. Dayal, B.K. Shukla, R.B.D. Misra, R.K. Shukla, Rishi Ram and V. Sahai for the Petitioners; M.C. Tewari, A N Bhargava, R.K. Singh, S.A. Khan, S.K. Singh and S. Masood for the Respondents.

Headnote:Code of Civil Procedure, 1908—Section 100—Family arrangement—Scope of interference with—Case set up by defendant-appellant that there was no family settlement and respondent No. 7 was never a tenant in shops and Balkhana—Prior to filing of suit by respondent appellant had filed a suit for rent and eviction—Executing Court decided all questions, including questions relating to tenancy rights arising between the parties against them—In such proceedings question of title is gone into only incidently and it cannot be held to be an adjudication of title between the co-owners—Both the Courts below have decreed the suit of respondent by holding that the property was purchased with the money of the Joint Family and in a family arrangement it was given to respondent No. 1—Execution proceedings attained finality—Oral testimony in those proceedings cannot be re-assessed in the instant proceedings—Courts below have held that an oral family settlement was entered into between mother and her sons—A landlord who is a co-owner cannot plead that since he is collecting rent and letting out the property from time to time he has become exclusive owner or a partition has been effected—An oral family arrangement has to be proved—However, plaintiff-respondent has not proved the family partition by any evidence whatsoever even in his oral testimony—Both the Courts below have erroneously decreed the suit of respondent—Held, that no oral family partition had taken place amongst the plaintiff and the defendants—Finding of fact recorded by Courts below that property in dispute came to be included in joint family property requires no interference—Impugned judgment set aside. [Paras 10 to 16]

       Result; Appeal Allowed.

       

JUDGMENT

Hon’ble Sanjay Misra, J.—This is a defendants second appeal under Section 100 CPC. It has been filed against the judgment and decree dated 30.10.1984 in Civil Appeal N0. 212 of 1983 passed by the First Additional District Judge, Bijnor whereby the judgment and decree passed by the Trial Court in Suit No. 131 of 1979 between Jai Prakash v. Birmawati and others, has been affirmed.

2. At the time when this appeal was admitted the substantial question of law contained in paragraphs 2 and 3 had been formulated. They are quoted hereunder :

1.Whether the finding that there was an oral family partition in 1960 in which the property in dispute came to the Qurah of the plaintiff respondent is erroneous in law inasmuch as the plaintiff respondent was not able to give the material particulars relating to the alleged partition in his testimony?

2.Whether this admission of Jai Prakash plaintiff respondent that he was a party in objection of Ghasita against the decree passed in original Suit No. 478 of 1967, has been erroneously ignored by the Courts below?

3. Sri B. Dayal learned counsel for the defendant appellant has submitted that Suit No. 131 of 1979 was filed by Jai Prakash son of Ganga Ram against the defendant appellant who is widow of Sri Ganga Ram and the other sons of Ganga Ram as also one Ghasita was made a defendant on the ground that he was tenant of the plaintiff and in an earlier Suit No. 478 of 1967 (Birmawati v. Om Prakash and Ghasita) was dispossessed in execution of such decree. He states that the plaintiff respondent claimed a declaration that he is owner of the disputed properties which contained shops and Balkhana and he be given possession after eviction of the defendant No. 1 to 6. According to Sri Dayal a further declaration was sought by the plaintiff respondent that defendant No. 1 namely Smt. Birmawati widow of Sri Ganga Ram be held not to be owner of the property in question and be injuncted from interfering or changing the nature of the shops alongwith Balkhana on the basis of the decree passed in Suit No. 478 of 1967. According to Sri Dayal Ghasita (defendant No. 7) colluded with Om Prakash and filed Civil Revision No. 70 of 1976 which was rejected by the High Court on 27.10.1978 and in Suit No. 478 of 1967 Jai Prakash was not made a party since he had no concern with the property of Smt. Birmawati.

4. According to Sri A.N. Bhargava learned counsel for the plaintiff respondent No. 1 facts of the case as borne out from the record are that one Ganga Ram was owner of the properties situated in Mohalla Bazar Chowk and Mohalla Sanwaldas. After the death of Sri Ganga Ram his widow Smt. Birmawati (defendant appellant) started looking after the affairs of the family at which time her sons were minors. According to the plaintiff when the shops were purchased they were in a dilapidated condition and plaintiff respondent reconstructed the shops after a family settlement had been entered. It is alleged by the plaintiff respondent that he was 20 years of age and after completing his studies he got service in the Roadways and he let out the shops and Balkhana. The plaintiff alleges that the other brothers were living in other portions of the house and doing their separate business. In a family settlement he was alloted the shop and a portion of the house. According to him his mother Smt. Birmawati and elder brother Om Prakash colluded and obtained the decree for arrears of rent and eviction in Suit No. 478 of 1967 whereby Ghasita was evicted. When the decree of that suit was being executed against Ghasita he filed his objections under Order 21 Rule 100 CPC and the plaintiff respondent appeared as a witness in those proceedings. His objection was rejected and his appeal was also dismissed. He also filed a Suit No. 474 of 1969 for eviction of his tenant namely Abdul Hafiz which was decreed in Appeal No. 101 of 1971 and he obtained possession of the shop in execution case No. 34 of 1972.

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