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2006 DIGILAW 1054 (PNJ)

Kuldeep Singh v. Municipal Committee

2006-03-10

VINEY MITTAL

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Judgment VINEY MITTAL, J. 1. The plaintiff is the appellant before this Court. He filed a suit for permanent injunction claiming that he was a tenant of the Wakf Board and had taken the land on lease from the Wakf Board and had also raised construction on the said land. The plaintiff claimed that his possession was there for the last 30 years as such the defendant Municipal Committee had no concern with the said property nor right to dispossess the plaintiff in any manner. 2. The defendant Municipal Committee contested the suit. It claimed that the plaintiff was in unauthorised and illegal possession of the land which was owned by the defendant Municipal Committee. However a specific stand was taken by the Committee that it would not dispossess the plaintiff from the suit property except in due course of law. The possession of the plaintiff in the suit property for a period of 30 years was also denied. 3. The learned trial Court, on the basis of the evidence available on the record, found that the plaintiff was in possession of the suit property. 4. However, it was also held that plaintiff had failed to prove in what capacity he was in such possession. It was also held that the plaintiff was not in possession of the suit property for the last 30 years, as claimed by him. Consequently, the suit filed by the plaintiff was dismissed. An appeal was filed by him before the learned first Appellate Court. The learned first Appellate Court reaffirmed the findings recorded by the trial Court. The appeal of the plaintiff was also dismissed. At the outset, Mr. Ashok Verma, the learned counsel appearing for the defendant Municipal Committee has stated that in view of the stand taken by he Committee in the written statement that it shall not dispossess the plaintiff from the suit property, except in due course of law, directions can bee issued by this Court that the defendant Committee shall not dispossess the plaintiff except in due course of law. 5. In view of the fair stand taken by Mr. Verma, the learned counsel appearing for the Committee, the present Regular Second Appeal is disposed of and it is directed that the defendant Committee shall not dispossess the plaintiff from the suit property, except in due course of law.