AMIT KUMAR JAIN Vs. M. SHYAMLAL JAIN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS civil revision petition arises out of order, dated 3.3.2014, in OS No. 1743 of 2004, on the file of the learned III Additional Senior Civil Judge, Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar, Hyderabad. The respondent filed the above -mentioned suit for eviction of the petitioner from the suit schedule property. During the trial, the petitioner sought to mark the deposition of the respondent given in OS No. 751 of 2005. The petitioner was not allowed the mark the said deposition on the ground that the respondent has not satisfied the requirements of Section 33 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (for short 'the Act'). Feeling aggrieved by the said order, the petitioner filed this revision petition.

(2.) UNDER Section 33 of the Act, one of the requirements for treating the evidence given in a judicial proceeding as a relevant fact is that the questions in issue were substantially the same in the first as in the second proceeding.

(3.) DEALING with Section 33 of the Act, the Supreme in Union of India v. Moksh Builders and Financiers, : AIR 1977 SC 409, held that in a given case Section 33 of the Act may not in terms apply where if a party has made certain admissions in the previous proceeding instituted between the same parties, such evidence can be marked as an exhibit in subsequent suit, Though the nature of the suits in the instant case varies, the purpose for which the petitioner sought marking of evidence of the respondent is evidently to plead that in the face of the purported admission made by him that the firm was the tenant and not the petitioner, the suit filed without impleading the firm is not maintainable. In the light of the purpose for which the petitioner seeks to mark the evidence of the respondent, it cannot be said that the said evidence has no relevance to the present suit. In my opinion, the lower Court has misdirected itself in not permitting the petitioner to mark the said deposition of the respondent in OS No. 751 of 2005 in evidence.