IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL
SHARAD KUMAR SHARMA, J.
Narendra Kumar Aggarwal – Appellant
Versus
Devki Nandan Sarraff and Others – Respondents
Civil Revision No. 110 of 2017
Decided On : 14-07-2022
Revision - Implications of Order 2 Rule 2 of C.P.C. - [Section 115, Code of Civil Procedure, 1908] - [Order 2 Rule 2, Code of Civil Procedure, 1908] - The court discussed the implications of Order 2 Rule 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and its application to the subsequent suit filed for cancellation of a sale deed. The court analyzed the conscious pleading and the available cause of action at the time of filing the first suit, and concluded that the subsequent suit was barred by Order 2 Rule 2(3) of C.P.C.
Fact of the Case:
The plaintiff filed a suit for permanent injunction based on a sale deed, consciously pleading its voidability. Subsequently, the plaintiff filed another suit for cancellation of the same sale deed. The court analyzed the implications of Order 2 Rule 2 of C.P.C. in relation to the subsequent suit.
Finding of the Court:
The court found that the subsequent suit for cancellation of the sale deed was barred by Order 2 Rule 2(3) of C.P.C. as the plaintiff had consciously pleaded the voidability of the sale deed in the first suit but chose not to challenge it at that time.
Issues: The prime issue was whether the subsequent suit was barred by the provisions contained under Order 2 Rule 2 of the C.P.C. The court analyzed the conscious pleading and cause of action available at the time of filing the first suit.
Ratio Decidendi: The court held that the subsequent suit was barred by Order 2 Rule 2(3) of C.P.C. as the plaintiff had the opportunity and cause of action to challenge the sale deed in the first suit but chose not to do so.
Final Decision: The court quashed the impugned order and answered the issue in favor of the defendant/revisionist, holding that the subsequent suit for cancellation of the sale deed was barred by Order 2 Rule 2(3) of C.P.C. The civil revision was allowed.
JUDGMENT :
SHARAD KUMAR SHARMA, J.
1. It is defendants revision preferred under Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as C.P.C.) where the defendant has put a challenge to the impugned order of 22.05.2017, as it has been passed by the court of learned Civil Judge (Senior Division) Kashipur, District Udham Singh Nagar in Suit No. 17 of 2014 Devki Nandan Sarraff vs. Narendra Kumar Aggarwal and Others, whereby the learned trial court, had decided the issue no. 7, relating to the implications of Order 2 Rule 2 of C.P.C. against the defendant.
2. Brief facts of the case are that the plaintiff/respondent herein on 21.01.2014, had instituted a suit in relation to the disputed property which was more appropriately described at the foot of the plaint constituting, to be a property in the shape of an angan, staircase and a chabutra, as depicted by the plaint map by figure EFGHIJ. The nature of degree, which was sought therein by the plaintiffs as modulated was a simiplicitor suit for grant of decree of permanent injunction, as against the defendant therein, but what would be of more concern for this Court, for the purposes of the present revision is, that if the pleadings raised in the plaint, which was instituted on 21.01.2014 is taken into consideration in its totality particularly the pleadings, which were raised in Para 8 and Para 10 of Suit No. 20 of 2014, the plaintiff therein has consciously made an observation and a pleading to the effect, “that the sale deed of 04.12.2013, which was executed in favour of defendant no. 5, was to be a deed of conveyance, which was bad in the eyes of law and was an ineffective document”, based on which it was conducted by the plaintiff that the defendant could not have claimed any right in relation to the property in question.
3. The nature of pleading, which was modulated in Para 10 of the suit itself, where the plaintiff was conscious about the legal impact of sale deed dated 04.12.2013, where the averment has been made “for the sale deed conferring the right on defendant no. 5 was a fraudulent document or was a nonest document.” Meaning thereby the plaintiff therein, when he had instituted the suit on 21.01.2014 had foundationed his relief for the grant of decree of permanent injunction only, on the basis of the sale deed which was then only was pleaded to be void. In that eventuality the voidablity of a document creating a right in favour of the defendant, was a conscious pleading which had been raised by the plaintiff in Suit No. 20 of 2014, it ought to have at that time itself should have contained a relief for giving a challenge to the sale deed of 04.12.2013 itself but for the reasons best known to the plaintiff, the relief was modulated and limited only for the grant of decree of permanent injunction.
4. During the intervening period of pendency of earlier suit, the plaintiff/respondent herein instituted yet another suit in March 2014, wherein he has prayed for a degree for cancellation of sale deed dated 04.12.2013 as void in the eyes of law, which is said to have been registered before the Sub Registrar. In the suit which was thus instituted for cancellation of the sale deed, being numbered as Suit No. 17 of 2014, the learned trial court has framed the issues and one of the prime issue, which was the subject matter of consideration and which was pressed by the revisionist by way of preliminary was Issue No. 7, to the effect, that “whether the subsequent suit was barred by the provisions contained under Order 2 Rule 2 of the C.P.C. or not?”
5. The learned trial court had decided that said issue as against the defendants/revisionists, by the impugned judgment, which is under challenge. It has been argued by the learned counsel for the revisionist, that the observations which had been made and the logic, which has been assigned by the learned trial court by not attracting the provisions contained under Order 2 Rule 2 (3) of C.P.C. would be bad in the eyes of l
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