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IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT INDORE
BEFORE
HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE ANIL VERMA
ON THE 21st OF FEBRUARY, 2022
CIVIL REVISION No. 339 of 2021
Between:-
KRISHI UJAP MANDI SAMITI DHAR
SECRETARY SHRI K.D. AGNIHOTRI
KRISHI UPAJ MANDI SAMITI
PREMISES DHAR (MADHYA PRADESH)
.....PETITIONER
(BY SHRI ASHOK AIREN, ADVOCATE )
AND
M/S KHEMCHAM JAIN PROPRIE
TOR ANUJ KUMAR JAIN S/O KHEMCHAND JAIN
34 DHAR (MADHYA PRADESH)
.....RESPONDENTS
(BY SHRI NITIN PHADKE, ADVOCATE)
(Whether approved for reporting:- Yes )
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This revision coming on for admission this day, the court
passed the following:
The petitioner has filed present revision under section 115 of the
Civil Procedure Code 1908 (for short C.P.C) being aggrieved by the
impugned order dated 09/09/2021 passed by the Civil Judge, Class-II,
Dhar in Civil Suit no. 99-A/2021, whereby an application filed under
Order 7 Rule 11 of CPC has been dismissed.
2.
Brief facts of the case are that the respondent/plaintiff
instituted a suit for declaration and permanent injunction against the
petitioner/defendant. The petitioner filed an application under Order 7
Rule 11 of CPC before the trial Court and raised a preliminary
objection to maintainability of such a civil suit contending that in view
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of Section 66 of MP Krishi Upaj Mandi Adhiniyam, 1972 (in short
Adhiniyam) the jurisdiction of civil Court was excluded and
cancellation of license could not be challenged before the civil Court.
After hearing both the parties, the trial Court has dismissed the
application vide impugned order dated 09/09/2021, hence present
revision before this Court.
3.
Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the
plaintiff has not given any notice before filing of the suit to the
petitioner/defendant and as per sections 66 and 67 of Adhiniyam,
jurisdiction of civil Court is barred in this matter. The trial court has
not considered that the civil suit is expressly barred and at the time of
consideration of the application under Order 7 Rule 11 of CPC, only
plaint averments are relevant. The plaintiff has even not properly
valued the suit and the court fee was not accordingly paid. The trial
Court has committed material irregularity in holding that section 9 of
the CPC would be applicable. The suit filed by the plaintiff is not
maintainable. The impugned order passed by the trial Court is bad in
law and is not sustainable, hence learned counsel prays that the
impugned order be set aside.
4.
Learned counsel for the respondent has opposed the
prayed made by counsel for the petitioner by supporting the impugned
order passed by the Court below.
5.
I have given my anxious consideration to the submissions
advanced by both the parties and carefully examined the documents
filed along with present revision.
6.
The trial Court has dismissed the application filed on
behalf of the petitioner under order 7 Rule 11 of CPC. On the basis of
that, the matter should be adjudicated on the basis of the pleadings
filed by the defendant and other objections should be decided on the
basis of the evidence given by both the parties on merit. Therefore,
short question that arises for consideration of thie petition is whether
an application under Order 7 Rule 11 of CPC ought to be decided on
the allegations in the plaint and filing of the written statement and
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evidence on merit is irrelevant and unnecessary.
7.
In such circumstances, Order VII Rule 11 C.P.C. which
reads as under:
"11. Rejection of plaint.-The plaint shall be rejected
in the following cases:-
(a) Where it does not disclose a cause of action;
(b) Where the relief claimed is undervalued, and the
plaintiff, on being required by the Court to correct the
valuation within a time to be fixed by the court, fails to do
so;
(c) Where the relief claimed is properly valued by
the plaint is written upon paper insufficiently stamped, and
the plaintiff, on being required by the Court to supply the
requisite stamp-paper within a time to be fixed by the
Court, failed to do so:
(d) Where the suit appears from the statement in the
plaint to be barred by any law;
(e) Where it is not filed in duplicate;
(f) Where the plaintiff fails to comply with the
provisions of rule 9;
Provided that the time fixed by the Court for the
correction of the valuation or supplying of the requisite
stamp-paper shall not be extended unless the Court, for
reasons to be recorded, is satisfied that the plaintiff was
prevented by any cause of an exceptional nature for
correcting the valuation or supplying the requisite stamp-
paper, as the case may be, within the time fixed by the
Court and th
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