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2006 Supreme(AP) 991

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT
HYDERABAD
V.V.S. RAO, J.
Pannala Renuka and another - Petitioners.
Vs.
Kavali (Rajumouni) Venkataiah and others - Respondents.
C.R.P. No.4218 of 2005
Decided on 1-9-2006.
Advocates Appeared
Mr. V. Venkataramana, Advocate for the Petitioners.
Mr. V.V. Narasimha Rao, Advocate for Respondent Nos.1 to 5.
None appeared for Respondent Nos. 6 to 9.

Headnote:

Constitution of India – Article 227 – Transfer of Property Act, 1882 – Section 52 – Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – Order I Rule 10, Order XXII Rule 10 – Implead – Petitioners herein, who are the wife and husband, filed I.A. in O.S. under Order I Rule 10 of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 praying the Court of the II Additional Senior Civil Judge, to implead them as defendants 4 and 5 – Application was opposed by the plaintiffs – Trial Court. by order dismissed I.A. placing reliance on two decisions of this Court in Ramesh Chawla v. N. Srihari and others1 and Kuna Ramulu v. Kuna Annapurnamma and others – Feeling aggrieved by this, the present civil revision petition is filed under Article 227 of Constitution of India – Held, Even in a case falling under the scope of Order XXII Rule 10 of CPC, the test would be whether alienee pendente lite has enforceable legal right. Can it be such a person, who purchased the suit schedule property during pendency of the suit in gross violation of the principle in Section 52 of T.P. Act has an enforceable legal right – Answer should be in the negative, for the simple reason that a person, who violates the law and acquired the right, can never be treated as a holder of legally enforceable right – Petitioners, therefore, have to sailor sink with the third defendant and they cannot have right independent of the right of the third defendant, nor the petitioners can be said to have any legally enforceable right as against plaintiff – Impugned order of the trial court, therefore, must be held correct and is not vitiated by any error warranting interference – Civil Revision Petition Dismissed

ORDER

The respondents 4 to 6 herein (hereafter called, the plaintiffs) filed suit being O.S.No.95 of 1999 against respondents 7 and 8 (hereafter called, the defendants). The suit was tiled on the file of the Court of the II Additional Senior Civil Judge, Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar for declaration of title and delivery of possession of land admeasuring Acs.0.36 guntas in survey NO.241 and Acs.7.19 guntas in survey No.248 situated at Thummalur village of Maheshwaram Mandal in Ranga Reddy District (the suit schedule property). The plaintiffs alleged that they are absolute owners and possessors of suit schedule property, that the defendants erected fencing in the property claiming it to be their own and that the defendants are trying to interfere with the property of the plaintiffs. The suit was coming up for trial. In 2004, the plaintiffs tiled another suit being O.S. NO.1 073 of 2004 on the file of the Court of the I Additional Senior Civil Judge, Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar against 9th respondent herein and ten (10) others including the second petitioner herein. This suit was filed for declaration of title, delivery of possession and permanent injunction and damages in respect of the land admeasuring Acs.1.27 guntas and Acs.15.11 guntas situated in survey No.248 of Thummalur village. In the said suit, they also referred to O.S. No.95 of 1999. At that stage, the petitioners herein, who are the wife and husband, filed I.A.No.938 of 2005 in O.S. No.95 of 1999 under Order I Rule 10 of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) praying the Court of the II Additional Senior Civil Judge, Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar, to implead them as defendants 4 and 5. The application was opposed by the plaintiffs. The trial Court. by order dated 10-8-2005, dismissed I.A. No.938 of 2005 placing reliance on two decisions of this Court in Ramesh Chawla v. N. Srihari and others1 and Kuna Ramulu v. Kuna Annapurnamma and others2. Feeling aggrieved by this, the present civil revision petition is filed under Article 227 of Constitution of India.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners placed reliance on the decisions of the Supreme Court in Khemchand S. Choudhari v. Vishnu H. Patil, Raj Kumar v. Sardari Lar and Amit Kumar Shaw v. Farida Khatoon in support of the submission that being the transferees of interest of the defendants, they are proper and necessary parties and, therefore, notwithstanding Section 52 of Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (T.P. Act for brevity), they can be impleaded under Order XXII Rule 10 of CPC. He also points out that when this Court decided Ramesh Chawla1, the decisions of the Supreme Court in Khemchand S. Choudhari and Raj Kumar were not brought to the notice of this Court and, therefore, the petitioners can be impleaded as party defendants. Opposing the C.R.P., learned counsel for the plaintiffs (respondents 1 to 6) submits that as the petitioners purchased the property during the pendency of O.S. NO.95 of 1999 without obtaining leave of the Court, whether or not there is an order of the Civil Court prohibiting the sale, their purchase is hit by the doctrine of lis pendens and, therefore, they cannot be brought on record as defendants.

3. Section 52 of Transfer of Property Act reads as under:

52. Transfer of property pending suit relating thereto,- During the pendency in any Court having authority within the limits of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir or established beyond such limits by the Central Government of any suit or proceeding which is not collusive and in which any right to immovable property is directly and specifically in question, the property cannot be transferred or otherwise dealt with by any party to the suit or proceeding so as to affect the rights of any other party thereto under the decree or order which may be made therein, except under the authority of the Court and on such terms as it may impose.

Explanation.- For the purposes of this section, the pendency of a suit or proceeding sha













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