An order rejecting a plaint under Order VII Rule 11 of the CPC is a deemed decree under Section 2(2), making it appealable under Section 96. Consequently, a revision petition challenging the entertainment of such an appeal is maintainable and devoid of merit.

ORDER:

C.R.P.No.277 of 2026 is filed aggrieved by the numbering of

A.S.No.17 of 2025, on the file of Principal District Judge, Peddapalli District, filed against the Order dated 18.02.2025, passed in I.A.No.368 of 2022 in O.S.No.24 of 2022, on the file of Junior Civil

Judge, Sulthanabad.

2. Heard Sri Mahender Battu, learned Counsel, representing Sri

A.Jagan, learned Counsel for the petitioner on record.

3. Learned Counsel for the petitioner would submit that respondent No.1 has filed a suit vide O.S.No.24 of 2022, for perpetual injunction and also to declare the documents of the petitioner, as null and void, against the petitioner and respondent Nos.2 to 11; that petitioner herein entered appearance and filed an

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application vide I.A.No.368 of 2022, under Order VII Rule 11(a) & (d) of Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (for short ‘CPC, 1908’), for rejection of plaint and the same was allowed by the trial Court vide Order dated 18.02.2025; that the respondent No.1 preferred an appeal before the appellate authority and the same was numbered as A.S.No.17 of

2025. Aggrieved by the same, present revision petition is filed.

4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submitted that respondent No.1 has filed an appeal against the Order dated 18.02.2025, passed in I.A.No.368 of 2022, however, the first appellate Court entertained the appeal and numbered the same, without considering the fact that an appeal lies only when the Judgment is passed on merits. He finally prayed to allow the revision petition by setting aside the

numbering of A.S.No.17 of 2025.

5. In the present case, the application filed by the petitioner for rejection of plaint was allowed by the trial Court vide Order dated 18.02.2025, and resultantly, the plaint was rejected. As per Section 2(2) of CPC, 1908, ‘decree’ means the formal expression of an adjudication which, so far as regards the Court expressing it, conclusively determines the rights of the parties with regard to all or any of the matters in controversy in the suit and may be either preliminary or final. It shall be deemed to include the rejection of a plaint and the determination of any question within Section 144, but

shall not include:-

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a) any adjudication from which an appeal lies as an appeal

from an order, or

b) any order of dismissal for default.

6. Section 2 of CPC mandates that an Order of rejection of plaint under Order VII Rule 11 of CPC, amounts to final adjudication and deemed decree and as such, the same is appealable under Section 96 R/w. Order 41 of CPC. In Abdul Rashid Rather Vs. Ghulam Ahmad Ganai ¹, wherein, the learned Single Judge of the High Court of J & K and Ladakh, held that an Order rejecting a plaint under Order VII Rule 11 is a decree, and is appealable and revision does not lie. A similar view was taken in recent Judgment in Mehvish Choudhary Vs. J&K Bank and another,² and held that no revision lies against the Order of rejection of plaint under Order VII Rule 11 of CPC, and only appeal lies under Section 96 of CPC. Thus, in view of above legal position, an Order passed under Order VII Rule 11, rejecting the plaint is deemed to be decree and only appeal lies against the said Order under Section 96 of CPC and revision does not

lie.

7. In the present case, the respondent No.1 filed appeal against the Order dated 18.02.2025 in I.A.No.368 of 2022, rejecting the plaint, and the same is numbered as A.S.No.17 of 2025, and this Court does not find any illegality or irregularity in entertaining the

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AIR 2011 J&K 29 (30,31)

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appeal filed by respondent No.1, therefore, the c