2022 Supreme(Online)(Kar) 51754
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU
DATED THIS THE 28TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2022
BEFORE
THE HON’BLE Dr. JUSTICE H.B.PRABHAKARA SASTRY
WRIT PETITION No.47020 OF 2014 (GM-CPC)
BETWEEN:
Siddappa
Son of Thotada Manjappa
Aged about 60 years,
Resident of Honnanaviile village,
Taluk & District Shimoga – 577201.
..
Petitioner
(By Sri. C.M. Desai, Advocate)
AND:
1. Manjappa,
Son of Hanumanthappa
Aged about 62 years,
Resident of Honnanaviile village,
Taluk and District Shimoga – 577201.
2. Ningappa,
Son of Thotada Manjappa
Wife of Kariyappa
Aged about 43 years,
R/o. Honnavile village,
Taluk and District Shimoga – 577201.
.. Respondents
(By Sri. R. Gopal, Advocate for R-1;
Notice to R-2 – dispensed with v/o.dt.15-10-2014)
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W.P.No.47020/2014
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This Writ Petition is filed under Articles 226 and 227 of the
Constitution of India, praying to quash both the orders dated
19-03-2014 and 04-09-2014 passed in the Execution Petition
No.110/2009 on the file of the II Additional Civil Judge & JMFC,
Shimoga under Annexure ‘F’ and ‘H’ by issue of writ of certiorari
and to consider I.A.No.8, under Annexure G on merits; issue a
writ of prohibition to prohibit the first respondent from
obstructing the agricultural operations of the petitioner’s
execution schedule property in any manner, to issue such other
writ, order or direction as may be deemed fit to issue in the
circumstances of this case including an order as to cost in the
interest of justice and equity.
This Writ Petition coming on for Preliminary Hearing in `B’
Group, through Physical Hearing/Video Conferencing Hearing,
this day, the Court made the following:
The present petitioner who was first judgment debtor
in Execution Case No.110/2009, on the file of the learned II
Additional Civil Judge and JMFC, at Shivamogga,(hereinafter
for brevity referred to as “the Executing Court”), has filed
this writ petition, challenging the orders dated 19-03-2014
and 04-09-2014 passed in the said matter.
2. The respondent No.1 is being represented by his
learned counsel. Notice to respondent No.2 is dispensed
with. This matter was earlier connected with Writ Petition
No.13233/2014. However, at the submission made by the
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learned counsels from both side, this writ petition has now
been disconnected and is taken up separately.
3. The undisputed facts are that, the present
respondent No.1, as a plaintiff, had instituted a suit against
the present petitioner and present respondent No.2,
arraigning them as defendant Nos.1 and 2 in Original Suit
No.184/1994, in the Court of the I Additional Civil Judge
(Jr.Dn.) at Shimoga, for the relief of permanent injunction,
seeking to restrain the defendants or anyone claiming
through them from interfering in his alleged peaceful
possession of the suit schedule immovable properties. The
said suit came to be decreed on 28-08-2004. Aggrieved by
the same, the defendants filed an appeal in R.A.No.73/2004
which came to be dismissed on its merit on 24-07-2006.
Thereafter, alleging that the defendants have encroached
some portion of his property and have thus committed
breach of the decree, the decree holder/plaintiff filed an
Execution Petition in Execution Case No.110/2009. The
Executing Court observing that the possession of the
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alleged encroached portion of the property has been
delivered through the process of the Court by Amin to the
decree holder, closed the Execution petition as decree is
satisfied on 19-03-2014. Thereafter, the present petitioner
who was judgment debtor No.1 (decree holder No.1) filed
an application in I.A.No.8 under Section 151 of the Code of
Civil Procedure, 1908 (hereinafter for brevity referred to as
“the CPC”), seeking to recall the order dated 19-03-2014
and to provide an opportunity to submit their objection to
the report of the process server/Amin and hear the
judgment debtor on the same. The Executing Court, by its
brief order dated 04-09-2014 observing that, the delivery
warrant was executed on 18-03-2014 and stay was granted
by the High Court on 19-03-2014 which was subsequent to
delivery of the property, hence, unless there is an order for
restoration of the possession, no purpose would be served
by re-opening the case, closed the petition. It is challenging
those two orders dated 19-03-2014 and 04-09-2014, the
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present writ petition has been filed before this Court by the
judgment debtor No.1 in the Executing Court.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner in his brief
argument submitted that, the Executing Court which had
taken I.A.No.8 on record and had issued notice to the
decree holder on the said I.A.No.8, was incorrect in not
hearing the applicant/Judgment debtor No.1 on I.A.No.8,
but proceeding in closing the Execution Case, again without
even passing any order on I.A.No.8, either allowing it or
rejecting it on merit.
5. Per contra, learned counsel for the respondent
No.1 submitted that, the very reading of the order dated
04-09-2014 would go to show that I.A.No.8 has not been
entertained by the Executing Court, as such, the impugned
order does not warrant any interference by this Court.
6. Between the same parties, one more writ petition
is pending wherein the present petitioner as a writ
petitioner in the said writ petition No.13233/2014 has
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challenged rejection of his I.A.No.7 seeking dismissal of the
petition in view of the report of the Court Commissioner and
over-ruling his main objection to the Execution petition.
However, thereafter, by virtue of subsequent development,
in the same execution petition, after the judgment debtor
No.1 (present petitioner) filing I.A.No.8 which resulted in
the out