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2025 DIGILAW 1105 (GAU)

Khabiron Nessa W/o Md. Jabbar Ali v. Chand Miah And Ors. S/o Late Baniz Seikh

2025-06-24

DEVASHIS BARUAH

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JUDGMENT : DEVASHIS BARUAH, J. Heard Mr. D. Goswami, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the appellant and Mr. A. Ikbal, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents. 2. This is an appeal filed under Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (for short ‘the Code’) challenging the judgment and decree dated 15.07.2024 passed by the learned Court of the Civil Judge, (Senior Division) Kamrup, Amingaon in Title Appeal No.39/2018 whereby the appeal was allowed thereby setting aside the judgment and decree dated 10.08.2018 passed in Title Suit No.384/2014 by the learned Munsiff, Kamrup at Amingaon. 3. The learned counsel for the appellant submitted that though there are various questions of law proposed in the memo of appeal in terms with Section 100(3) of the Code, but he would insist upon the question of law at Serial No.1 to be framed as substantial question of law in the instant appeal and the said is reproduced herein under: “ 1 . Whether on failure of plaintiff to prove her Gift of suit land made by her father necessarily preclude the plaintiff from getting mutation on the strength of her right of inheritance over the ancestral property (which is not partitioned among legal heirs of the ancestor by metes and bounds?” 4. The question therefore arises before this Court while taking up the instant appeal at the stage of Order XLI Rule 11 of the Code as to whether the proposed question of law can at all be formulated as a substantial question of law involved in the instant appeal. 5. From the materials on record, it is seen that the learned First Appellate Court while allowing the appeal filed by the defendants in the suit observed that the plaintiff who is the appellant herein could not have acquired right, title and interest over the Schedule-A land on the basis of Gift dated 15.01.1982 on the ground that the donor i.e. the father of the plaintiff having expired in the year 1973. The learned First Appellate Court further observed that the gift on the basis of which the plaintiff got mutation over the Schedule-A land having not been proved, the mutation so granted in respect of the Schedule-A land in favour of the plaintiff was required to be interfered with. 6. The learned First Appellate Court further observed that the gift on the basis of which the plaintiff got mutation over the Schedule-A land having not been proved, the mutation so granted in respect of the Schedule-A land in favour of the plaintiff was required to be interfered with. 6. It is also relevant to take note of that the defendants in the suit who are the brothers of the plaintiff claimed declaration of their right, title and interest on the basis of the amicable partition which was not agreed to by the learned First Appellate Court and only the mutation order dated 23.03.2012 was interfered with. In this perspective, the learned counsel for the appellant therefore submitted that as the learned First Appellate Court had come to a finding that there was no valid gift in favour of the plaintiff and also did not come to a finding that there was an amicable partition, the plaintiff therefore had a right over the suit land in terms with the Mohammedan Law of Succession and as such the said question of law has been proposed. 7. Mr. A. Ikbal, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents submitted that the respondents herein have not preferred appeal against the dismissal of the part of the counter claim insofar as their right, title and interest over the suit land on the basis of an amicable partition and the appellant is always at liberty to file proceedings seeking partition, if so advised. 8. This Court had perused the materials on record which includes the pleadings of both the parties, the issues so framed, the findings so arrived at by both the learned Trial Court as well as the learned First Appellate Court. It is the opinion of this Court that the proposed question of law cannot be formulated as a substantial question of law inasmuch as what is sought in the present proceedings by way of the proposed question of law is not what arose at all in the proceedings which led to the filing of the present appeal. 9. Accordingly, this Court observes that the proposed question of law cannot be framed as substantial question of law. Apart from that, it appears that there is no other substantial question of law which can be formulated. Therefore, the present appeal cannot be proceeded with for which the appeal stands dismissed. 10. 9. Accordingly, this Court observes that the proposed question of law cannot be framed as substantial question of law. Apart from that, it appears that there is no other substantial question of law which can be formulated. Therefore, the present appeal cannot be proceeded with for which the appeal stands dismissed. 10. Before parting with the records, this Court however observes that the dismissal of the suit of the plaintiff as well as interference to the mutation order dated 23.03.2012 by the learned First Appellate Court would not bar the plaintiff to seek rights on the basis of Mohammedan Law of Succession in respect to the Schedule-A land, if so advised. The decision in the present proceedings as well as the proceedings which led to the filing of the present appeal shall not act as a res-judicata for claiming partition by the appellant, if so advised. The above observation is based upon the opinion of this Court that the question of right to seek partition by the appellant in respect to the suit land under the Mohammedan Law of Succession was never an issue in the proceedings which led to the filing of the present appeal. 11. The Registry is directed to forthwith return the LCR to the learned Court below.