HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL
RAJESH TANDON, J.
MURLI SINGH - Appellant
Versus
RAM SINGH - Respondents
C. R. 68 Of 2005
Decided On : MARCH 13, 2007
Execution Case - Code of Civil Procedure - Section 47 - 111(d) of Transfer of Property Act - 47 - 111(d)
Fact of the Case:
The suit for rent and ejectment was filed in 1987, contested by defendant no. 1, and decreed in 1991. The revisionists sought to set aside the order allowing objections filed by the opposite parties under section 47 of the Civil Procedure Code.
Finding of the Court:
The executing Court allowed objections based on the transferee's purchase of a share of the premises, ignoring the High Court's order allowing time to vacate the premises to the tenant. The court emphasized that the executing court cannot go beyond the decree and cited relevant legal provisions and case law.
Issues: The main issue was the validity of objections filed under section 47 of the Civil Procedure Code based on the transferee's purchase of a share of the premises.
Ratio Decidendi: The executing court cannot go beyond the decree, and the transferee's purchase did not attract Section 111(d) of the Transfer of Property Act. The court also emphasized the principle of estoppel and the doctrine of merger.
Final Decision: The court quashed the orders passed in the execution cases and allowed the revisions.
( 2 ) BY the present civil revisions filed under Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the revisionists have prayed for setting aside the order dated 11th May, 2005 passed by the Judge, Small Cause Court, chamoli, Gopeshwar, passed in Execution case No. 21 of 2004 whereby the Judge small Cause Court has allowed the objections filed by the opposite parties under section 47 of the Civil Procedure Code.
( 3 ) BRIEFLY stated, the suit for rent and ejectment was filed by late Sri Murli Dhar, father of the revisionists in the year, 1987. The suit was contested by the defendant no. 1 and was decreed on 16-3-1991.
( 4 ) THEREAFTER a revision was preferred being Revision No. 493 of 2001 by Sri Dalip singh and Sri Ram Singh, which was dismissed on 16th August, 2004. Following order was passed:
"counsel for the applicant has prayed some time to vacate the premises. The time to vacate the premises is granted to the applicant to vacate the premises by 31-12-2004 subject to the undertaking furnished by the applicant within a period of one month before the J. S. C. C. to the following effect: (i) The applicant shall give the undertaking that he will vacate the premises by 31-12-2004. (ii) The applicant shall pay the entire arrears of rent and damages due up to the filing of the undertaking before the J. S. C. C. (iii) The applicant shall pay regularly damages according to the rate of rent on every first week of the month. (iv) In case of default, the stay order shall stand discharged and the applicant shall execute the decree forthwith. Subject to the above the revision is dismissed. There will be no order as to costs. "
( 5 ) IT has come on the record that Ram singh-opposite party No. 2 has also preferred a SLP before the Apex Court and the same was also dismissed. Thus the order passed by this Court on 16th August, 2004 has become final.
( 6 ) DURING the execution proceedings objections were filed by the transferee as 58-Ga and 63-Ga stating therein that he has purchased 1/3rd portion of the premises in dispute by virtue of sale deed dated 29th september, 2004 from the decree holder govind Singh-defendant No. 2, Sishupal singh, Murili Singh and Bhupal Singh.
( 7 ) THE executing Court has come to the conclusion that once the judgment debtor has purchased the share of Govind Singh to the extent of 1/3rd, he has stepped into the shoes of the co-owners and has acquired the rights as a co-owner and as such objections were allowed. The executing Court has completely ignored the order of the High Court by which time was allowed to vacate the premises to the tenant.
( 8 ) IT is well settled that the executing court cannot go beyond the decree as will appear from the definition of Section 47 of the Code of Civil Procedure itself, where it has been held that the executing Court cannot enquire as to whether the decree was passed with the finding and whether the decree was valid or not. Section 47 of the code of Civil Procedure reads as under :
"47. Questions to be determined by the court executing decree.- (1) All questions arising between the parties to the suit in which the decree was passed, or their representatives and relating to the execution, discharge or satisfaction of the decree, shall be determined by the Court executing the decree and not by a separate suit. (2) (****) (3) Where a question arises as to whether any person is or is not the representative of a party, such question shall, for the purposes of this section, be determined by the court. (Explanation I.- For the purposes of this section, a plaintiff whose suit has been dismissed and a defendant against whom a suit has been dismissed are parties to the suit. Explanation 11.- (a) For the purposes of this section, a purchaser of property at a sale in execution of a decree shall be deemed to be a party to the suit in which the decree is passed; and (b) al
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