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2023 DIGILAW 1199 (RAJ)

Soni Devi v. Khinya Ram

2023-05-29

REKHA BORANA

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ORDER : 1. The present appeal has been preferred against the order dated 19.04.2023 passed by the Additional District Judge No.5, Jodhpur Metro, Jodhpur whereby the second stay application under Order 39 Rules 1 & 2, CPC preferred by the plaintiff has been rejected. 2. The brief facts of the case are that a suit for cancellation of the release deed was preferred by plaintiff-Soni Devi being mother of the defendants. It was averred in the plaint that the release deed was got executed by her sons fraudulently in the garb of gift deeds to be executed in favour of her daughters. Along with the suit, an application under Order 39 Rules 1 & 2, CPC was preferred at the initial stage which was rejected on the ground that there are no chances of possession of the plaintiff being disturbed by the defendants as defendant No.2-Khinya Ram had himself filed a written statement in favour of the plaintiff admitting the factum of the release deed being executed fraudulently in the garb of the gift deed. 3. After the said stay petition being rejected on 06.11.2017, the second stay petition has been preferred in the year 2023 with an averment that defendant No.2-Khinya Ram, who had specifically supported the case of the plaintiff, is now proceeding on to sell out the plots on the land in question and therefore, he be restrained from doing so. 4. The second stay petition as preferred by the plaintiff has been rejected by the Court below on the ground that no new fact has been averred by the plaintiff to have come into existence after decision of the first stay petition on 06.11.2017. The Court below concluded that the order dated 06.11.2017 was passed after taking into consideration the complete facts and therefore, without any new fact being averred by the plaintiff, the second stay petition, on the same facts and grounds, could not be held to be tenable. 5. Learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the said finding by the Court below is totally contrary to the material available on record as defendant No.2-Khinya Ram had at the initial stage, supported the case of the plaintiff but now, after decision of the first stay petition, he is proceeding on to sell out the plots on the land in question and therefore, a new cause of action arose. Hence, the second stay petition was totally on new grounds and a new cause of action and the Court ought to have entertained the same. 6. Per contra, learned counsel for the respondent, while supporting the order passed by the Court below, submitted that besides the grounds on which the second stay application has been rejected by the Court below, the plaintiff does not have a case on merits as well. The first stay application preferred by the plaintiff had been rejected basically on the ground that in the proceedings initiated by the daughters in the year 2010 before the Revenue Court, a compromise/settlement was entered into between the parties whereby it was decided that the plaintiff/mother-Soni Devi would execute gift deeds in favour of her daughters for a land measuring one bigha each and a release deed in favour of her sons/defendants for the rest of the land. On basis of the said compromise, an application was preferred before the Revenue Court for withdrawal of the suit and the suit was thereby withdrawn unconditionally on 23.09.2010. It was only in pursuance to the said compromise that the release deed was executed by the plaintiff. 7. Learned counsel for the respondent also submitted that even otherwise, the proceedings for preparation of the outlay and sale of plots does not pertain to 2 bigha 10 biswas of the land released in his favour by his mother. All the said proceedings are being undertaken by him qua the land measuring 6 bighas 11 biswas which was already mutated in his favour by virtue of succession. 8. In rejoinder, learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the compromise relied upon by learned counsel for the respondent even otherwise cannot be relied upon as the same was never verified by the Revenue Court and withdrawal of the suit was a simplicitor withdrawal which is reflected from the order dated 23.09.2010 also. Therefore, the said compromise being not verified cannot be said to be a compromise in terms of law. Therefore, the said compromise being not verified cannot be said to be a compromise in terms of law. In the alternate, learned counsel, while relying upon the judgment in the case of Baheti Education Trust v. Nema Ram & Ors., 2007 (2) WLN 39 submitted that if the Court is not inclined to interfere with the impugned order and to grant any interim order in favour of the appellant, to maintain the equities, it be directed that if the respondent enters into any transaction qua the land in question, a specific noting regarding the pendency of the present litigation be made in all the documents. 9. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the material available on record. 10. After a perusal of the record and consideration of the arguments as advanced by the parties, this Court is not inclined to interfere with the order impugned because of the following reasons: firstly, as found by the learned Court below, no new facts have been averred in the second stay petition which would deserve any consideration afresh; secondly, the order dated 06.11.2017 rejecting the first stay petition was passed after thorough consideration of the facts and the law. Admittedly, the same was not assailed further; thirdly, a specific submission has been made by learned counsel for the respondent that any action, whatsoever, for sale of the plots is taken by him only qua the 6 bighas and 11 biswas of land which is not under dispute in the present litigation. The present dispute pertains only to 2 bighas 11 biswas of land qua which the release deed was executed by the plaintiff in his favour and no proceedings for sale of any plots on the said land are being taken by him. Therefore, no fresh cause of action can be concluded to have arisen to the plaintiff. 11. In view of the above observations, this Court does not find any ground to interfere with the order impugned. So far as the alternative prayer as made by learned counsel for the appellant is concerned, in view of the specific statement made by learned counsel for the respondent that the alleged action is not qua the land in dispute, no direction in light of the case of Baheti Education Trust (supra) also deserves to be passed. So far as the alternative prayer as made by learned counsel for the appellant is concerned, in view of the specific statement made by learned counsel for the respondent that the alleged action is not qua the land in dispute, no direction in light of the case of Baheti Education Trust (supra) also deserves to be passed. However, it is made clear that if any action is taken in future by the respondent-defendant No.2 qua the 2 bighas 10 biswas of land in question, it would be open for the appellant to assail the same before the learned Court below. 12. With the above observations, the present appeal is disposed of. 13. Stay application and all the pending applications also stand disposed of.