DEEPCHAND Vs. LACHHU

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution.

(2.) THE case of the petitioners is that they were the creditors of non -petitioner No. 1 Lachhu. On 24th December, 1962, they filed a suit against him in the court of Munsiff City Bali on the basis of a promissory note of Rs. 680/ - which the non -petitioner No. 1 had executed in their favour. On 3rd July 1963, non -petitioner No. 1 filed an application in the Debt Relief Court, Bali, under Section 6 of the Rajasthan Relief of Agricultural Indebtedness Act, 1957 (hereinafter called (he Act), mentioning therein the debt relating to the promissory note only. Notice of this application was issued to the petitioners and they filed their claim of Rs. 1,325/3/3 under the following heads:

(3.) UNDER the aforesaid provision on the date fixed for hearing of the case a creditor is required to produce the document in his possession or control on which he bases his claim. He has also to furnish a true and full statement of accounts of all previous transactions between him and the debtor leading to the claim and also his account books and copies thereof in his possession or control. The petitioners had produced only the documents on which they based these two claims.