2023 Supreme(Online)(KAR) 11088
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RFA No. 1294 of 2022
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU
DATED THIS THE 15TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2023
BEFORE
THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE H.T. NARENDRA PRASAD
REGULAR FIRST APPEAL NO. 1294 OF 2022 (SP)
BETWEEN:
K RAGHAVA REDDY AND ASSOCIATES
HAVING NONE OF ITS OFFICE AT
ROYAL RESIDENCY G 1,
BLOCK 1 NO 08, BRUNTON ROAD
BENGALURU - 560025
REPRESENTED HEREIN BY
ONE OF ITS PARTNERS,
K RAGHAVA REDDY …APPELLANT
(BY SRI.NAGANANDA S.S. SENIOR COUNSEL AND
SRI. DEVARAJ K. S., ADVOCATE)
AND:
1.
PEOPLE CHARITY FUND
ALSO CALLED THE PEOPLE
CHARITY FUND A TRUST
HAVING ITS OFFICE AT NO 97,
DR ALAGAPPA ROAD, CHENNAI
REPRESENTED BY TRUSTEE
2.
MRS NALINI SABARTNAM
W/O SABARTNAM
AGED ABOUT 61 YEARS
RESIDING AT NO 6468
BAYVIEW DRIVE OAKLAND
CA 94605 USA. …RESPONDENTS
(BY SRI. UDYA HOLLA, SENIOR COUNSEL FOR
SRI.RAGHUNATH M.D., ADVOCATE)
THIS RFA IS FILED UNDER SECTION 96 OF CPC 1908
AGAINST THE ORDER DATED 14.07.2022 PASSED ON I.A.NO.3
IN OS No.7566/2016 ON THE FILE OF THE V ADDITIONAL CITY
Digitally
signed by C
MALATHI
Location:
High Court
of Karnataka
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RFA No. 1294 of 2022
CIVIL AND SESSIONS JUDGE, BENGALURU, ALLOWING THE
I.A.NO.3 FILED UNDER ORDER VII RULE 11(a) AND (d) R/W
SEC.151 OF CPC FOR REJECTION OF PLAINT.
THIS APPEAL, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY, THE
COURT DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING:
This appeal is filed by the plaintiff under Section 96
of Civil Procedure Code challenging the judgment and
decree dated 14.07.2022 in O.S.No.7566/2016 passed by
the V Addl. City Civil Judge, Bangalore City (CCH-13),
whereby the suit filed by the plaintiff has been dismissed.
2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are
referred to as per their rankings before the trial court.
3. The plaintiff has filed a suit for specific
performance of the contract dated 13.06.1984. The suit
came to be rejected by order dated 14.07.2022. Being
aggrieved by the same, the plaintiff has filed this appeal.
After service of notice, respondent – defendant has
appeared through advocate. Now the parties have settled
the matter and they have filed the compromise petition
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under Order 23 Rule 3 r/w. Section 151 of CPC. The
compromise petition is extracted below:
“The Parties beg to state as under:
A. The entire property that is subject matter of
litigation is described in Schedule 'A' to this
petition. The Parties understand that the Appellants
have had the benefit of being in possession of the
Schedule 'A' Property after getting the tenants
evicted and they have also incurred certain
expenditure towards the same. The Parties further
agree that the Respondent is a Trust and has not
benefitted from the Schedule 'A' Property and due
to pendency of litigation since 1987 onwards, no
improvement could be done to the Schedule 'A'
Property, and as such, the Respondent could not
get any revenue from the Schedule 'A' Property
except Rs. 2,00,000/- (Rupees Two Lakhs only)
being advance sale consideration being received
from the Appellant herein and incurring substantial
expenditure for fighting the litigations.
B. The Parties further submit that after the
litigation between the parties reached this Hon'ble
Court and after hearing the parties for some time,
this Hon'ble Court was pleased to direct the Parties
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to explore possibilities of settlement and to end all
litigations. In pursuance to the same, the Parties
have had detailed discussions and with the help of
professionals and settled all their disputes on the
following terms:
1.
The Appellant restricts its right to seek
specific performance of the Agreement of Sale dt:-
13.06.1984 only to the extent of the sale deed
being executed in terms of this compromise
petition. The parties also hereby cancel the Power
of Attorney executed dt: 18.11.1983/18.11.1984
and the cancelled original Power of Attorney is
delivered back to the Respondents.
2.
The Appellant and Respondents jointly agree
and confirm that they shall divide the Schedule
Property as under:
a)
An area to the extent of 6,123 square feet
ear-marked in the Sketch annexed hereto as
ANNEXURE A and marked in Blue colour and which
is morefully described in Schedule 'B' hereunder
and hereinafter referred to as the "Schedule B
Property", shall be allotted to the Appellant in lieu
of the Appellant giving up its claim to the entire
property, and the balance area shall be retained by
the Respondents.
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b) An area to the extent of 10,318 square feet ear-
marked
in
the
Sketch
annexed
hereto
as
ANNEXURE A and marked in green colour, and
which is morefully described in Schedule 'C' and
hereinafter
referred
to
as
the
"Schedule
C
Property", is retained by the Respondents.
3.
The Respondents, represented by all its
trustees, shall execute and register a sale deed, the
mutually agreed draft of which is annexed hereto as
ANNEXURE B, in favour of the Appellant in respect
of Schedule 'B' property on the same date as the
submission of this compromise petition before this
Hon'ble Court, or latest on the immediately
succeeding date. The advance paid by the Appellant
to the Respondent No.1 in terms of the Agreement
of Sale dt:- 13.06.1984 and the expenditure of Rs.
14,00,000/- incurred by the Appellant to evict the
tenants and secure vacant possession of the
Schedule 'A' Property fo