LAWS(DLH)-2011-8-517

VINOD KUMAR Vs. BOHAT RAM AND ORS.

Decided On August 12, 2011
VINOD KUMAR Appellant
V/S
Bohat Ram And Ors. Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE challenge by means of this First Appeal under Order 43(1)(r) Code of Civil Procedure is to the impugned order dated 19.3.2010 which has allowed the application of the Respondent No. 1/Plaintiff under Order 39 Rules 1 & 2 Code of Civil Procedure thereby restraining the Appellant from in any manner transferring the suit property or parting with possession thereof to any person till the decision of the suit.

(2.) THE issue in the case pertains to ownership of the suit property WZ -5, situated in village Titarpur, New Delhi. The Respondent No. 1 who is a senior citizen of 80 years, laid out a case that he is the owner of the property and earlier litigations were initiated which concluded in his favour vide orders dated 4.11.1997 (Ex.PW1/11) and 14.1.1997 (Ex.PW1/12). These were litigations between the Respondent No. 1 and the Defendant No. 2 in which it was stated that the Defendant No. 2 had no rights in the property. The Defendant No. 2 thereafter subsequently transferred the property firstly to Defendant No. 1 and thereafter the property was transferred to other Defendants and lastly to the Defendant No. 7. Admittedly the Defendants are related to each other. Since the property was being regularly transferred, in order to prevent further complications, after the Defendant No. 7/Appellant was added, the subject application for injunction under Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 Code of Civil Procedure was moved to restrain the Defendant No. 7 from transferring the property further and which has been allowed.

(3.) ACCORDINGLY , there is no illegality or perversity in the impugned order which in effect directs maintenance of status quo in the property so that the suit does not become in fructuous qua the existing Defendants and the Plaintiff has to keep on changing different persons to be made parties to the suit. Once the triple factors were in favour of Respondent No. 1/Plaintiff, the Trial Court has rightly passed the impugned order.