LAWS(JHAR)-2015-4-116

JITENDRA PAL SINGH Vs. CHANDRAKALA JAIN AND ORS.

Decided On April 22, 2015
JITENDRA PAL SINGH Appellant
V/S
Chandrakala Jain And Ors. Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The present revision application has arisen out of the decree passed in Title Suit No.44 of 1981 which was instituted by the plaintiffs-Mohri Devi Sethi and her husband-Lalchand Jain Sethi (predecessors of the opposite parties). That the said suit was decreed vide judgment dated 13.03.1986 whereby defendant-petitioner/judgment debtors were directed to be evicted from the suit premises. Against the said judgment/decree, judgment-debtors preferred Title Appeal No. 23 of 1986 which was allowed by the Addl. Judicial Commissioner, 1st by judgment and decree dated 01.07.1992 and 30.07.1992 respectively. The plaintiffs/O.Ps challenged the same in Second Appeal No. 109 of 1992(R). During the pendency of the appeal, the suit property was bequeathed by the plaintiffs (predecessor) to Chandrakala Jain, w/o Santlal Jain, Surender Jain and others (O.P./decree holders), in the present revision. The Second Appeal vide judgment dated 29.10.1999 affirmed and restored the decree passed in Title Suit No.44 of 1981. Thereafter O.P.-decree holders instituted Execution Case No.4 of 2011 for executing the decree. On summons/notice, the petitioner/judgment debtors filed the show cause praying therein to dismiss the Execution Case No.4 of 2011 which was rejected by the Executing Court vide the impugned order dated 07.07.2014.

(2.) Mr. Manjul Prasad, learned Senior counsel, while assailing the impugned order, has argued that after the bequeathing of the suit property to the O.P./decree holder and after demise of the original landlord, Chandrakala Jain had applied for Letters of Administration in L.A.Case No.246 of 1993 in the court of learned Judicial Commissioner, Ranchi. That L.A.Case No. 246 of 1993 was compromised before the Lok Adalat on 27.05.2011 wherien the suit property was allotted in favour of Surendra Kumar Jain, Rahul Jain, Kiran Devi Jain and others. That Shantilal Jain was looking after the property and prosecuting the cases pertaining to the suit property and he was realising rent from the defendant/tenants i.e. the father of the judgment debtors.

(3.) It is contended by the learned Senior counsel that the judgment debtor had filed his show cause (Annexure-3) raising the objection that the decree had become inexecutable as it had been satisfied and discharged due to creation of a fresh tenancy after the judgment passed in Title Appeal No.23 of 1986 and from the rent receipts issued by Shantilal Jain at enhanced monthly rent it is manifestly clear that due to such sequence of events and development there was discharge and satisfaction of the decree.