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2016 Supreme(All) 849

ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : ARUN TANDON AND HARSH KUMAR, JJ.
SURAJ PRASAD KESHARI ....Appellant
Versus
PYARE MOHAN ....Respondent
(First Appeal No. 425 of 2000, decided on 29th July, 2016)

Advocates:
Counsel :
A.S. Rai, Alok Kumar Gupta and Vimlesh Kumar Rai for the Appellant; Sushila Singh, A.P. Srivastava and Subhra Singh for the Respondent.
.

Headnote:(Indian) Easement Act, 1882—Sections 4 and 15—Code of Civil Procedure, 1908—Section 96—U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950—Section 331—Specific Relief Act, 1963—Section 34—Easementary Right—Public Lane—Right over drainage, air, windows and ventilators—Scope—Court below by impugned decree dated 24.2.2000 decree suit of plaintiff-respondent by passing a declaration that plaintiff has an easmentary right over disputed Gali in suit and for prohibitory permanent injunction for restraining the defendant-appellant from damaging or demolishing Nali shown in plaint map or obstructing flow of water through Nali as well as closing ventilators and windows and drain pipes or obstructing use of air and light to plaintiff’s house through above windows and ventilators—Ownership of triple storied house of plaintiff-respondent and its being ancestral as well as 100 years old has not been disputed by appellant—Impugned finding of Court below that plaintiff-respondent has an easmentary right of egress and ingress to his house over and through the Gali in question is absolutely wrong—Disputed Gali held not a public lane, and plaintiff-respondent has a prescriptive right over that for light, air, drainage and ventilators—Impugned finding of Court below regarding easmentary right of way of plaintiff-respondent over dispute Gali as well as with regard to Gali in question being ‘Public Lane’ held liable to be set aside—Direction issued. [Paras 11 to 28]

       Result; Appeal Partly Allowed.

       

JUDGMENT

Hon’ble Harsh Kumar, J.—This appeal under Section 96 of C.P.C. has been filed against the judgment and decree dated 24.2.2000 passed by Additional Civil Judge (S.D.), Bhadohi at Gyanpur (District Sant Ravidas Nagar) in Civil Suit No. 131 of 1994, decreeing the suit with costs and passing a decree of declaration to the effect that plaintiff has an easmentary right over the disputed Gali in suit and for prohibitory permanent injunction for restraining the defendant from damaging or demolishing the Nali shown by letters [k] p] N] x in plaint map or obstructing the flow of water through the Nali as well as from closing the ventilators and windows and drain pipes or obstructing the use of air and light to the plaintiff’s house through above windows and ventilators.

2. The brief facts relating to the appeal are that plaintiff Pyare Mohan filed Civil Suit No. 131 of 1994 on 17.10.1994 with the allegation that the house shown by letters d] [k] x] ?k in plaint map originaly belonged to Beni Ram and was inherited by Jwala Prasad, who executed a registered will on 13.11.1980 in favour of plaintiff and his brother; that the above house is triple storied house and several ventilators and windows on each story opens towards East in 8 feet wide lane (Gali); that in the western side of the Gali there is 2 feet 3 inch wide Pakki Nali in which the water of the house of plaintiff flows through Nabdan (drain) of his house as well as through pipes from roofs and floors of triple storied house; that the plaintiff and his predecessors have always been continuously peacefully and without any interruption, flowing water through the Nali and pipes and have been taking light and air through the windows and ventilators in eastern wall of their house, for more than 20 years, as of right, and have acquired prescriptive right of easment to flow the water through Nali and pipes and take the light and air through windows and ventilators; that on 14.10.1994, the defendant threatened of demolition of the Nali and raising of a wall on western side of Gali after dismelting the pipes and of closing the ventilators and windows of the house of plaintiff, so as to obstruct and interfere in exercise of his easmentary rights to flow the water and take light and air.

3. The defendant filed written statement denying the allegations of plaint and contended that no water of the house of plaintiff did ever flow from the Nali in question and that he has no right to flow the water in the Nali in dispute or to take light and air through the windows and ventilators towards Gali; that the Gali in question is in exclusive ownership and possession of the defendant and neither any Parnala/pipe nor any Nabdan (drain) nor any window or ventilator of the house of plaintiff opens or ever existed towards the Gali in question nor the plaintiff has any right to flow the water in, and take light and air from, the Gali in question; that across the Gali in question there is house of Satendra Kumar, which has been purchased by him from Smt. Fatima Bibi, Asgar Bibi etc. and in the sale-deed of the house of Satendra Kumar, western boundary has been mentioned as ‘the Gali of defendant’; that the dirty water of the house of plaintiff flows towards North in municipal drain; that the suit is legally not maintainable and is liable to be dismissed with costs.

4. Upon parties pleadings, learned trial Court framed the following nine issues :

(i) whether the plaintiff has easmentary right to flow drain water of his house in the Pakki Nali shown by letters d] [k]] p] N in plaint map as mentioned in plaint?

(ii) whether plaintiff has an easmentary right of way over Gali shown by letters [k] ;] j] x in plaint map as mentioned in plaint?

(iii) whether the plaintiff has an easmentary right to take light and air from the Gali in East of his house through ventilators and windows and to flow water of his house through pipes and drain (Nabdan)?

(iv) whether the suit is barred by principles of es














































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