AMAR SINGH Vs. UGAM SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THESE are three connected applications by Amar Singh under Art 226 of the Constitution, and arise in the following circumstances.

(2.) THREE suits were brought by Kalia (Writ case No. 29), Goma (Writ case No. 30) and Rania (Writ case No. 31) before the Panchayat of village Elana. The suits were for price of Pala sofa by the plaintiffs to the defendant who is the applicant in all these three cases. The suits were resisted by the present applicant, and one of the objections that he had taken was that Ugam Singh Sarpanch we interested in the plaintiffs, and therefore he should not sit in the Panchayat for deciding the suits. The applicant's case further is that the Panchayat decided these suits ex parte after he was given an assurance that the suits would be transferred to another Panchayat. It is, therefore, prayed that as the Panchayat had no jurisdiction to decide these suits in view of Ugam Singh's taking part in it, the ex parte decree be set aside. Other grounds are also taken in support of the applications, but we need not refer to them because we propose to decide these three applications on a preliminary objection raised on behalf of the opposite parties,