DEVANEETHI Vs. T. SATHIAH AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) These two civil revision petitions have arisen out of a common order and decretal orders dated 10.09.2014 made in I.A. No. 12786/2011 in O.S. No. 12139/2010 on the file of the I Additional District Judge, City Civil Court, Chennai and I.A. No. 12785/2011 in O.S. No. 12140/2010 on the file the same court. Both the applications were filed under Order VII Rule 11 CPC for rejection of the plaint in the respective suits. The learned trial Judge, after hearing both sides, dismissed both the applications and hence these civil revision petitions have been filed by the petitioner herein, who figures as the third defendant in both the suits.

(2.) The first respondent has entered appearance and he is represented by a counsel. Respondents 2 to 13 in C.R.P.(PD) No. 710/2015 have been given up as they are co -defendants. Similarly respondents 4 to 21 in C.R.P.(PD) No. 711/2015 have been given up. The arguments advanced by Mr.K.V. Subramanian, learned senior counsel representing the counsel on record for the petitioner in both the revisions and by Mr.K.Chairman Selvaraj, learned counsel for the first respondent in C.R.P.(PD) No. 710/2015 and for respondents 1 to 3 in C.R.P.(PD) No. 711/2015 were heard. The certified copies of the common order and the decretal orders of the trial court, grounds of revision and the copies of other documents produced in the form of typed set of papers were also perused.

(3.) The first respondent in C.R.P.(PD) No. 710/2015, namely P.Sathiah, is none other than the husband of Dr.S.Vasanthamala and father of Dr.T.S. Deepa and minor T.S. Vijaya Shankar, who are the respondents 1 to 3 in the other civil revision petition, namely C.R.P.(PD) No. 711/2015. In both the cases, Devaneethi is the petitioner and he figures as the third defendant in both the suits. O.S. No. 12139/2010 was filed by T.Sathiah, the first respondent in C.R.P.(PD) No. 710/2015 against K.A. Thirumurugan and 12 others, out of whom, the revision petitioner Devaneethi figures as the third defendant. O.S. No. 12140/2010 was filed by the respondents 1 to 3 in C.R.P.(PD) No. 711/2015 against T.Jayanthi and 20 others, out of whom, Devaneethi, the revision petitioner, figures as the third defendant. O.S. No. 12139/2010 was filed by T.Sathiah, the first respondent in C.R.P.(PD) No. 710/2015, originally on the file of the High Court of Madras on its original side as C.S. No. 318/2001 for the following reliefs: