HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD
NEW AGRA RESIDENT WELFARE ASSOCIATION – Appellant
Versus
NEW AGRA VIKAS SAMITI REGD. AND ANOTHER – Respondent
WRIC 29152/2013
Court No. - 9
Case :- WRIT - C No. - 29152 of 2013
Petitioner :- New Agra Resident Welfare Association
Respondent :- New Agra Vikas Samiti Regd. And Another
Counsel for Petitioner :- Swapnil Kumar
Counsel for Respondent :- Chand Bali Prasad,Amit Kumar
Mishra,Deepak Saxena,Pradeep Chauhan,Ranjit Saxena
Hon'ble Ajit Kumar,J.
1. Case called out in the revised call, learned counsel for the petitioner is
present though Sri Pradip Chandra, learned Advocate has filed
vakalatnama on behalf of Nagar Nigam, Agra but he is not present and Sri
Amit Kumar Mishra has filed vakalatname on behalf of respondent no. 1
but he is also not present, however, they have filed counter affidavit which
is taken into consideration while deciding this petition.
2. The petitioner before this Court is a Resident Welfare Association styled
as New Resident Agra Welfare Association and claimed to have form a
society of the residents of the colony, which has been developed after due
sanction of the map by the competent authority.
3. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that colony houses
also a community hall, park for the use of residents of the colony, however
since opposite party number 1 started using the premises in question for
organizing marriages to the disadvantage of residents of the colony to
enjoy park as an open space, the society made a complaint to the District
Magistrate, Deputy Director General of Police, Agra, Vice Chairman of
Agra Development Authority as well as Municipal Commissioner, Nagar
Nigam respectively against illegal use of the premises in question and
prayed that premises in question be cleared from the unauthorized
occupants of marriage hall and park should be cleared for the purpose of
use of residents and their children, consequently, the Nagar Nigam, Agra
issued notice on 08.04.2010 respectively .
4. Earlier some spot inspection was conducted by the Junior Engineer of
the Agra Development Authority and he had submitted a report that half
park had got occupied and was being used in the name of marriage home
or the banquet hall and that marriage hall was being run by one Surendra
Sachdeva, S/o Ram Prakash Agarwal and Lalit Khatri in the name of New
Agra Vikas Samiti who have been impleaded as plaintiff in the suit.
5. Municipal Commissioner, Nagar Nigam Agra passed an order to the
Additional District Magistrate (City) Agra to seize the community hall by
afternoon of 08.06.2010 and to ensure also maintenance of peace and law
and order at the same time and appoint a Magistrate for the said purpose.
Respondent no. 1 while filed an affidavit before Nagar Nigam, Agra that
premises in question was not being used since after 19th July, 2010 as a
marriage hall but at the same time instituted a suit to get the order passed
by the Municipal Commissioner, Nagar Nigam Agra dated 29.05.2010
declared as illegal and not affecting the plaintiff as well. The decree for
permanent injunction was also sought in favour of plaintiff restraining
defendant, Nagar Nigam from putting any seal upon community hall and
the temple of the New Agra Vikas Samiti.
6. The present petitioner moved an impleadment application in the said
suit under Order 1 Rule 10 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil
Procedure, 1908 on the ground that they were necessary parties as entire
action impugned in the suit had been taken upon complaint made by the
petitioner. The said application was considered by the trial court and
ultimately rejected vide order dated 3.11.2010 and the revision filed
against the said application has also come to be dismissed. Both the courts
have held that petitioner was neither necessary party nor, proper party as
the injunction was sought to the effect that sealing order may not be
passed in respect of Satsang Bhawan and temple claimed by the plaintiff
and since there was no other samiti of the area was party so there was no
question of impleading the present petitioner as a party inasmuch as, the
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