(1.) Vide this order I shall decide the aforesaid two applications moved by the defendants seeking rejection of the plaint under Order VII Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Elaborate oral arguments have been addressed by Counsel for the plaintiff. Counsel for the applicants had addressed very brief oral arguments, however, both the parties have filed written arguments. I have gone through them thoroughly.
(2.) Facts of the case as averred by the plaintiff, in brief, are that his late grandfather Pt. Lakshmi Chandra constituted a Joint Hindu Family with his two sons, namely, Pratap Chand and D.C. Kaushish-defendant No. I and owned and possessed moveable and immoveable properties. The immoveable properties are described in Schedule A to the plaint. Pratap Chand is stated to have died issueless. Pt. Lakshmi Chand -had died on February, 10,1934. D.C. Kaushish-defendant No. I then became Karta of the Joint Hindu Undivided Family comprising of himself, his wife defendant No. 4, and his three sons, namely, Ajay Kaushish-defendant No. 2 and Uday Kaushish- defendant No. 3 and the plaintiff. It is the case of the plaintiff that defendant No. I as Karta of Hindu Undivided Family (for short the 'HUF') managed and possessed the HUF properties together with all acquisitions thereof and in the year 1958 a Cinema Building was constructed on the HUF plot which stood in the name of defendant No. I and by 1961 the Cinema Building was completed and business of exhibiting the films in the said Cinema commenced and certain other blocks known as 'Warehouse Block' and other constructions were also raised on the said plot in the year 1962 and there was some construction which pre-existed on the said plot and plan of the said plot with its buildings has been filed alongwith the plaint.
(3.) It is further averred that in the year 1947 defendant No. I as Karta of HUF had brought into existence a private limited company under the name and style of M/s. Asian Art Printers (P) Ltd. with the capital and funds of the HUF and in 1956 only defendant No. 4 and defendant No. I were the directors of the said company and prior to it one close friend of defendant No. I Dr. Surendra Singh was taken as Director having been given a token one share of Rs. 10.00 in the said company. The said company carried on the business of printing from the ground floor of the Press Block in the same building. Till 1971 defendant No. I and defendant No. 4 continued to be only shareholders in the said company although in reality the said company was the asset of the HUF.