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2015 DIGILAW 1213 (HP)

Hukam Chand v. Bhintra Devi

2015-09-01

SURESHWAR THAKUR

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JUDGMENT : Sureshwar Thakur, J. The plaintiff instituted a suit for permanent injunction as well as mandatory injunction against the defendant/respondent herein. The act of the defendant/respondent herein which actuated the plaintiff to institute the suit aforesaid against the former is grooved in the factum of the respondent herein having by stacking stones on a path providing access to the Abadi of the plaintiff deterred its user by the plaintiff/petitioner herein. During the pendency of the suit before the learned trial Court the petitioner applicant instituted an application under Section 151 CPC seeking a direction from the learned trial Court to the revenue agency concerned to after carrying out the necessary demarcation place on record a Tatima depicting whether the user of path by the plaintiff/petitioner to access his Abadi stood hindered besides deterred in the manner aforesaid. However, the application stood rejected by the learned trial Court on the score that the acceptance of the application would result in collection of evidence at the instance of the learned trial Court in favour of the plaintiff-petitioner herein. The aforesaid reason is perse legally frail and necessitates its being discountenanced especially for the reason that when the parties are at contest qua the fact whether the defendant/respondent by the act attributed to her by the plaintiff/petitioner has precluded access to the petitioner besides to other villagers to their respective Abadis necessarily when the said issue would have stood mitigated besides would have been clinched only in the face of a direction being rendered by the learned trial Court to the revenue agency concerned to carry out the purpose disclosed in the application. As a corollary then the learned trial Court in not proceeding to accept the application has defacilitated the emergence of or sprouting of clinching evidence to rest at peace the controversy engaging the parties at lis. In aftermath the learned trial Court misdirected itself in law in dismissing the application of the petitioner. Accordingly, the instant petition is allowed and the impugned order is set-aside. In aftermath the learned trial Court misdirected itself in law in dismissing the application of the petitioner. Accordingly, the instant petition is allowed and the impugned order is set-aside. In sequel the application preferred by the plaintiff before the learned trial Court under Section 151 CPC is allowed and the learned trial Court is directed to issue necessary orders to the Tehsildar Tehsil Kotli to visit the site and after service of summons upon the parties at contest proceed to in their presence carry out demarcation and thereupon prepare a spot map accompanied by a report disclosing whether the path providing access to the Abadi of the petitioner as well as to the Abadi of other villagers stands obstructed by the defendant-respondent in the manner averred in the plaint. However, the observations made herein shall have no bearing on the merits of the case and the learned trial Court shall decide the civil suit uninfluenced by any observations made hereinabove.