NARINDER SINGH Vs. GRAM PANCHAYAT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS civil revision petition is directed against order dated 7.12.2013 (Annexure P -12) of the lower court vide which application (Annexure P -9) of the applicant -defendant No.4 Narinder Singh, petitioner herein, under Section 10 read with Section 151 CPC for stay of the suit, was dismissed.

(2.) HEARING has been provided to the counsel for the parties while going through the paper book.

(3.) BEFORE adjudicating rival claims of the parties in this revision petition, it would be appropriate to recapitulate the facts. There was another litigation wherein defendant No.4 Narinder Singh, petitioner herein, was a party. The said suit was decided on 22.9.1987. First appeal against that judgment was decided on 23.8.1989. Even a Civil Writ Petition No.16335 of 1996 having connection with the said matter was admitted on 28.7.1997. Orders dated 11.8.1998, 14.12.2004 and of 8.8.2009 were also passed and were referred to before the lower court by counsel for the applicantdefendant No.4 to buttress his claim that status -quo regarding possession was ordered to be maintained regarding the suit land and appeal filed by both the parties is pending before this Court. In short, it is claimed that since the matter is pending before this Court in the two other litigations, the fresh suit should be stayed.