2023 Supreme(Online)(Kar) 35431
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 24TH DAY OF MAY, 2023 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE SREENIVAS HARISH KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO. 7257 OF 2022 (GM-CPC)
Between:
1. Sri Shankara S/o. Late Basavarajappa Aged about 51 years R/at No.285, 7th Cross, 8th Main, ‘C’ Block, J.P.Nagara, Mysuru
2. Sri Nanjundaswamy S/o. Late Basavarajappa Aged about 43 years R/at No.95, 2nd Cross, 2nd Phase, Siddalingeswara Layout, J.P.Nagara, Mysuru.
Digitally signed ...Petitioners by C K LATHA (By Sri J.M.Anil Kumar, Advocate)
Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA And:
Sri Siddalingaswamy S/o. Devanna Aged about 39 years R/at Gejjagalli Village Mandakalli Post, Kasaba Hobli, Mysuru Taluk and District …Respondent (By Sri Ganapathy Bhat Vajralli, Advocate)
This Writ Petition is filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India praying to set aside the order dated 18.12.2021 passed by the learned Principal Senior Civil and CJM, Mysuru, in M.A. No.31/2020 vide Annexure-M to the Writ Petition are etc.
This writ petition having been heard and reserved on
28.03.2023, coming on for pronouncement this day, the court pronounced the following:
ORDER
This writ petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India is directed against the order dated 18.12.2021 of the Principal Senior Civil Judge, Mysuru, in M.A.No. 31/2020, an appeal filed under Order 43 Rule 1 (r) of the Code of Civil Procedure challenging the order dated 10.3.2020 on I.A.No.I for temporary injunction filed in O.S. 71/2020 on the file of Additional II Civil Judge, Mysuru.
2. The petitioners are the defendants in the suit.
The respondent being the plaintiff alleged interference by the petitioners with his possession of 7 guntas of land in S. No. 6/6 of Kuppaluru Village, Kasaba Hobli, Mysuru Taluk. The main plea of the respondent in his plaint is that though the land of the petitioners is situated towards west of his land in S. No. 6/6, i.e., the suit property, they obtained revenue records showing as if the suit property is situated within the boundaries of their land, and they tried to disturb his possession. The petitioners denied the plaint allegations and contended specifically that their father, Basavarajappa purchased 1.39 acres out of 4.16 acres in S. No. 6/A under a registered sale deed dated 4.6.1983, and later on there took place a partition among the members of the joint family. Based on the partition they obtained mutation of revenue records. They also pleaded that excluding 3 ¾ guntas of land, they obtained an order of conversion into non-agricultural purposes in respect of rest of their land. The petitioners denied the existence of respondent’s land beside their land and stated about O.S.34/2020 filed by Mallappa, Mahadevappa and Mallikarjuna whose application for temporary injunction was dismissed by the court.
3. The trial court, after considering the documents produced by either side parties granted an order of temporary injunction restraining the petitioners from interfering with respondent’s possession of suit property. The main reasons that the trial court assigned for holding that the plaintiff/respondent was able to make out existence of three essential ingredients were that in the sale deed relied upon by the respondent, the western boundary was shown as the petitioners land; and the petitioners would still contend to be having possession of 1.39 acres of land although they had sold 3 ¾ guntas of land out of it. The trial court therefore found that prima facie case had been made out by the respondent as the actual pleas put forward by the parties required trial to be held.
4. The appellate court also concurred with the findings of the trial court for dismissing the petitioners’
appeal.
5. I heard the arguments of learned advocates Sri J.M.Anil Kumar for the petitioners and Sri Ganapathy Bhat Vajralli for respondents.
6. Forgetting the fact that this writ petition is filed under supervisory jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, the learned counsel for the petitioners tried to present his case purely on facts which is not permitted. Interference with the impugned order by this court is limited to the extent of examining whether the appellate court has exercised its jurisdiction under Order 43 of CPC properly or not. It is a settled principle that the appellate court cannot disturb the findings of the trial court if it finds that the latter has exercised discretionary power properly and judiciously referring to the materials placed before it by the parties. In the light of this principle, if the order of the appellate court is read, it appears that, even though its order is short, it has given valid reasons for declining to set aside the trial court’s order on the application for temporary injunction.
7. Sri Anil Kumar drew my attention to order passed by this court in W.P. 4950/2022 which arose from an order passed in O.S.34/2020 about which there is a reference in the written statement. The said suit was filed by Mallappa and others against the petitioners; therein the application filed by them for temporary injunction against the petitioners was rejected, and t