OMKAR NATH SRIVASTAVA v. DISTRICT JUDGE, BARABANKI
2010-08-19
ANIL KUMAR
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JUDGMENT : ANIL KUMAR, J. – Heard Sri Ravindra Pratap Singh, learned Counsel for the petitioner, Sri C.B. Pandey, learned Standing Counsel on behalf of respondent Nos. 1 and 2 and Sri D.C. Jain, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of respondent No.3. With the consent of the parties Counsel who are present today the writ petition is disposed of finally. 2. In brief the facts of the present case to the effect that the controversy which is involved in the present case relates to the premises as House No. Q/690, Mohalla Qanoongoyan, City Nawabganj, District Barabanki to which respondent No. 3/co-owner/landlord filed an application for release under section 21 (1-A) of the U.P. Act No. 13 of 1972 before the Prescribed Authority/Civil Judge(Senior Division), Barabanki on the ground of personal need. Accordingly, a case was registered as PA No.3 of 2001, B.N. Verma v. Omkar Nath Srivastava and others, allowed by judgment dated 22.2.2010. 3. Aggrieved by the said order, the petitioner/tenant in the premises in question has filed an appeal under section 22 of U.P. Act No. 13 of 1972 and initially on the same day, the appeal was admitted by the in charge District Judge/appellate authority and an interim order was passed to the effect that the parties were directed to maintain status-quo. 4. As submitted by the learned Counsel for the petitioner that the matter was taken up on 7.4.2010 by the respondent No. 1, District Judge, Barabanki on the said date the impugned order has been passed, hence the present writ Petition has been filed thereby challenging the said order. 5. Sri Ravindra Pratap Singh, learned Counsel for the petitioner while assailing the said order submits that the same has been passed suo-mota without giving any opportunity of hearing whatsoever to the petitioner and he further submits that once the In charge/District Judge who is the competent authority admitted and considered the matter in question when the appeal was filed under section 22 of U.P. Act No. 13 of 1974 had admitted the same and passed an order of maintaining status-quo dated 27,3.2010, in these circumstances there was no justification or reasons on the part of the respondent No.1 to modify the slid order, so the order under challenge before this Court is arbitrary in nature and violation of principles of natural justice. 6.
6. Sri D.C. Jain, learned Counsel for the respondent No.3 submits that the respondent No. 1 has got full power and authority to modify the order dated 27.3.2010 passed by the In charge/District Judge by which the status-quo has been granted in favour of the petitioner /tenant on the ground that in the matter in question the petitioner/tenant has taken adjournment twice in order to linger on the appeal in question, so in these circumstances the impugned order which is under challenge in the present writ petition is perfectly valid, as such the present writ petition filed by the petitioner is liable to be dismissed. 7. I have heard learned Counsel for the parties and gone through the record. So far as the facts of the present case, it is not dispute by the learned Counsel for the parties who are present today that the controversy which is involved in the present case relates to the ground-floor having House No. Q/690, Mahalla Qanoongoyan, City Nawabganj, District Barabanki, to which respondent No. 3/co-owner/landlord filed an application for release under section 21 (1-A) of the U.P. Act No. 13 of 1972 before the Prescribed throaty/Civil Judge(5enior Division), Barabanki on the ground of personal need. Accordingly, a case was registered as P.A. No.3 of 2001, B.N. Verma v. Omkar Nath srivastava and others, the same was allowed by judgment dated 22.2.2010. 8. Aggrieved by the same, petitioner/tenant filed a statutory appeal under section 22 of U.P. Act No. 13 of 1972 and the respondent No.2 admitted the same and granted stay order to the effect that the parties are directed to maintain status-quo with certain conditions as submitted by Sri D.C. Jain, learned Counsel for the respondent No.3 that the petitioner/tenant should not take any adjournment. 9. Further, in the present case as two adjournments has been taken by the petitioner/tenant, so the order which is passed by the respondent No.1 is perfectly valid. 10, According to my opinion the said argument advanced by Sri D.C. Jain is not correct & from the perusal of the record it transpires that the impugned order which is under challenge in the present case, it is clearly established that the same has been passed without providing any opportunity whatsoever to the petitioner. 11.
10, According to my opinion the said argument advanced by Sri D.C. Jain is not correct & from the perusal of the record it transpires that the impugned order which is under challenge in the present case, it is clearly established that the same has been passed without providing any opportunity whatsoever to the petitioner. 11. Needless to mention herein that if any under has been passed without providing any opportunity to the peltries concerned, then the same is ex parte order, arbitrary in nature and in violation of principles of natural justice. 12. Coupled with the said fact that in the present cash, the appellate authority/In charge District Judge after considering the facts of the case on merit admitted the appeal filed by the petitioner/tenant and grated a stay order to the effect that the parties are directed to maintain status-qua as exists today with certain conditions, then in these circumstances, the District Judge while considering the matter in question on 7.4.2010 exercised the coordinate power and now even if it is found on the basis of record that the petitioner has taken two adjournment which is against the spirit of the initial order dated 27.3.2010 by which the status-quo was granted in respect to the property in question and appeal was admitted, then in that circumstances the petitioner/tenant should be heard and only thereafter the impugneli order shall be passed, but the said thing has not been done in the present case, as such the impugned order in question is violation of principles of natural justice. 13. Further, in the present case, an application for release under section 21 (1-A) of the U.P. Act No. 13 of 1972 before the Presented Authority/Civil Judge (5enior Division), Barabanki, has been moved by the owner-landlord/respondent No.3 in the year, 2001. So, keeping in view the said fact, in order to balance the equity between the parties, I hear by direct the appellate authority/District Judge, Barabanki to consider and dispose of the appeal pending before him within a period of three months from today as agreed between the parties who are present today. Parties are also directed that they should not take any unnecessary adjournment. 14. For the foregoing reasons the impugned order dated 7.4.2010 passed by respondent No. 1, District Judge is quashed. Writ petition is allowed. No order as to costs. Petition Allowed.