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2013 Supreme(All) 2144

ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : RAN VIJAI SINGH, J.
PAWAN SINGH @ PAWAN KUMAR SINGH AND ANOTHER ....Petitioners
Versus
RAMESHWAR PRASAD SHIVHARE ....Respondent
(Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 44169 of 2013, decided on 9th September, 2013)

Advocates:
Counsel :
B.N. Agrawal and Sanjay Agrawal for the Petitioners; Choudhary Subhash Kumar for the Respondents.

Headnote:Code of Civil Procedure, 1908—Order XLI, Rules 5(3) and 5(5)—Execution of decree—Stay of—Condition precedent—Plaintiff-respondent filed suit against petitioner-defendant for demolition, delivery of possession and payment of damages for use and occupation of disputed premises—Said suit was decreed with direction to petitioner to demolish the same—Court below rejected the stay applciation of petitioner for non-compliance of Rules 5 (3) and 5 (5) of Order XLI—Power to grant stay has been left to discretion of appellate Court considering the stay application with the requirement to secure the amount of money decree—However, Appellate Court has failed to exercise its discretion vested in it by not granting sometime to petitioner either to furnish the security or to deposit the decretal amount—Held, that the Appellate Court erred in rejecting the application of the petitioner—Impugned order quashed. [Paras 7 to 21]

JUDGMENT

Hon’ble Ran Vijai Singh, J.—Heard Sri B.N. Agrawal assisted by Sri Sanjay Agrawal, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Choudhary Subhash Kumar, learned Standing Counsel appearing for the contesting respondents.

2. Learned counsel for both the parties are agreed that this writ petition may be decided finally without any further exchange of affidavits at this stage. Therefore, the writ petition is taken up for final disposal.

3. Through this writ petition, the petitioners have prayed for issuing a writ of certiorari quashing the order dated 31.5.2013 passed by the In-charge, District and Sessions Judge, Jalaun, by which the petitioners’ application for interim protection in appeal No. 43/2013 (Pawan Singh and another v. Rameshwar Prasad) has been rejected for non-compliance of sub-rules (3) and (5) of Rule 5 of Order 41 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (in short, ‘CPC’). It appears, a suit was filed against the petitioner by the respondents for demolition, delivery of possession and payment of damages. The suit was decreed on 10.5.2013 with the direction to the petitioners to hand over the possession to the plaintiff and also pay Rs. 10 per day towards damages from the date of institution of suit till the date of delivery of the possession. Learned In-charge, District and Sessions Judge has although admitted the appeal, but rejected the petitioners’ application praying stay of the execution of the decree on the ground that sub-rules (3) and (5) of Rule 5 of Order 41 of the CPC have not been followed. For appreciating the controversy, it would be necessary to see the language used in sub-rules (3) and (5) of Rule 5 of Order 41 of the CPC, which are reproduced hereinunder:

“(3). No order of stay of execution shall be made under sub-rule (1) or sub-rule (2) unless the Court making it is satisfied -

(a) that substantial loss may result to the party applying for stay of execution unless the order is made;

(b) that the application has been made without unreasonable delay; and

© that security has been given by the applicant for the due performance of such decree or order as may ultimately be binding upon him.

(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub-rules, where the appellant fails to make the deposit or furnish the security specified in sub-rule (3) of rule 1, the Court shall not make an order staying the execution of the decree.”

It appears, in the year 1994, an amendment was made in sub-rule (5) of Rule 5 of Order 41 of the CPC which is reproduced hereinunder:

“(5). Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub-rules where the appeal is against a decree for payment of money, the Appellate Court shall not make an order staying the execution of the decree, unless the appellant shall, within such time as the Appellate Court may allow, deposit the amount disputed in the appeal or furnish such security in respect thereof as the Appellate Court may think fit.”

4. The submission of Sri Agrawal is that the provision upon which reliance has been placed by the learned Judge would not be attracted here in this case as that is only applicable in a case of money decree and it is not a case of simply money decree, but it is a case of demolition of construction, delivery of possession as well as payment of damages, etc. He has also submitted that in view of Allahabad High Court’s amendment in sub-rule (5) of Rule 5 of Order 41 of the CPC, it would be clear that unless Court passes some order and grant time to deposit the decretal amount or furnish security, it is not the condition precedent for the appellant/applicant to file an application seeking permission of the Court to deposit the security or decretal amount prior to filing of the stay application or at the time of filing of the application. In the submission of Sri Agrawal, the learned Judge, while rejecting the petitioner’s application has misconstrued and mis-interpreted the provisions contained in sub-rules (3) and (5) of Rule 5 of Order 4






















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