High Court Of Madhya Pradesh
N. D. OJHA, FAIZAN UDDIN
FIRM CHHUNILAL LAXMAN PRASAD - Appellant
Versus
AGARWAL, CO. - Respondents
L. P. A. 19 Of 1986
Decided On : 02/17/1987
(2) Civil P. C., 1908-S. 104 (2) & O. 43, R. 1-apply to Letters Patent Appeals also-no appeal lies against an interim order.
If the order was passed by a learned Single Judge of the High Court either appointing a receiver or granting or refusing injunction under Order 39, Rules 1 and 2 in some original proceeding, letters patent appeal would lie against that order treating it to be a judgment.
Section 104 (2) is applicable to a letter patent appeal. This provision provides that no appeal lies under this section. Where the Single Judge has based an order in appeal under section 104, read with order 43, Rule 1, the Letters Patent Appeal is not maintainable. AIR 1981 SC 1786 discussed. [ Paras 5 & 6
( 1 ) AN appeal was preferred to this court by the respondents against an order of the trial court allowing an application under O. 39, Rules 1 and 2 of the C. P. C. A Learned single Judge of this Court, by his order dated 28-3-86, reversed the order of the trial Court and dismissed the application made by the appellant. It is against this order that the present L. P. A. has been preferred.
( 2 ) A preliminary objection has been raised by counsel for the respondents that this appeal is not maintainable. In support of this objection, reliance has been placed on the decision of a D. B. of this Court in (Shri Kunwarji Sonker v. Nirmal chand Sonkar L. P. A. No. 151/85 D/-on 17-1-1986. Counsel for the appellant urged that the view taken in the aforesaid L. P. A. is in the teeth of the judgement of the Supreme Court in Shah Babulal Khimji v. Jayaben D. Kania, AIR 1981 SC 1786, and as such, cannot be taken to be good law. It is not a case where the decision of the Supreme Court supra may not have been considered by this Court while deciding L. P. A. No. 151/85. On the other hand, the said case has been considered and distinguished. We are in respectful agreement with the view taken in L. P. A. No. 151/85 aforesaid.
( 3 ) COUNSEL for the appellant has placed reliance on para 123 of the Supreme Court decision referred to above. In that para, it was held as under :-"in the instant case, as the order of the trial Judge as one refusing appointment of a receiver and grant of an ad interim injunction, it is undoubtedly a judgement within the meaning of the Letters Patent both because in view of our judgement, O. 43, R. 1 applies to internal appeals in the High Court and apart from it, such an order even on merits contains the quality of finality and would therefore be a judgement within the meaning of clause 15 of the Letters Patent. The consistent view taken by the Bombay High Court in the various cases noted above or other cases which may not have been noticed by us regarding the strict interpretation of clause 15 of the Letters Patent are hereby overruled and the Bombay High Court is directed to decide the question in future in the light of our decision. "
( 4 ) IT has been urged by counsel for the appellant on its basis that since clause 10 of the Letters Patent of the M. P. High Court is in pari materia with clause 15 of the Letters Patent of the Bombay High Court, the law laid down by the Supreme Court in Shah Babulal's case (AIR 1981 SC 1786) (supra) will apply even to the decisions of this Court holding that an order refusing appointment of a receiver or granting an interim injunction, would not amount to a judgement, and as such those decisions cannot be taken to be good law. No exception can now be taken so far as this proposition of law is concerned in view of the decision of the Supreme Court in case of Shah Babulal Supra. The hurdle in the way of the appellants, however, is not that the order of the learned single Judge would not amount to a judgement, but the hurdle is whether the appellants are entitled to prefer a second appeal, so to speak, against an order granting or refusing to grant an ad interim injunction under the provisions of O. 39 Rules 1 and 2 of the C. P. C. In Shah Babulal's case supra, the Supreme Court has emphasised that there is no inconsistency between S. 104 read with O. 43 R. 1 C. P. C. and the appeals under the Letters Patent and there is nothing to show that the Letters Patent, in any way, excludes or overrides the application of S. 104 read with O. 43 R. 1 C. P. C. or to show that these provisions would not apply to internal appeals in the High Court. In other words, what the Supreme Court has laid down in that provision of S. 104 read with O. 43 R. 1 C. P. C. apply even to internal appeals, viz. Letters Patent Appeals in the High Court.
( 5 ) THE effect of the aforesaid decision is that if an order has been passed by a learned single Judge of the High Court either appointing a receiv
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