JUDGEMENT
L.NARASIMHA REDDY, J. -
(1.) This C.M.S.A. is filed by the appellant-petitioner in I.P.No.17 of
2004 on the file of the Senior Civil Judge, Darsi. The appellant stated that
he incurred Several debts during the course of his business and sustained
heavy losses In it. It is also alleged that the respondents herein filed
O.S.Nos.247 and 248 of 1999 on the file of the Junior Civil Judge, Podili,
and obtained decrees against him and filed E.P.Nos.49 and 50 of 2003
thereafter, for a sum of Rs.70,352/- and Rs.73,170/-, respectively. It was
his case that he preferred appeals before this Court and on account of his
Insolvency, he could not comply with the condition of deposit of
Rs.25,000/- In the E.P., as directed by this Court. With this and other
allied allegations, he prayed the trial Court to declare him as insolvent by
filing I.P.
(2.) The respondents opposed the application. According to them, the
appellant possessed vast extents of movable and Immovable properties
and that his efforts are only to defeat the claims under the decrees.
Through its order, dated 29.11.2005, the trial Court dismissed the I.P.
The appellant filed A.S.No.6 of 2006 in the Court of VII Additional District
Judge, Ongole. The appeal was also dismissed on 27.04.2006.
Sri Koneti Raja Reddy, learned counsel for the appellant, submits
that the Court below proceeds on hyper technical grounds in dismissing
the claim of the appellant. He contends that the existence of a locker in
the joint names of the appellant and his brother-in-law, PW.2, cannot be
taken as a factor for dismissing the I.P. He states that though the locker
was maintained jointly, the appellant did not keep any property belonging
to him in that locker.
(3.) By the time the appellant filed the I.P., the respondents herein
obtained decrees and filed execution petitions. Even according to the
appellant, he filed appeals before this Court against the decrees and
obtained an order of conditional stay. This Court granted Interim
directions on condition that the petitioner deposits Rs.25,000/-, in each of
the E.P. Admittedly, this condition was not complied with. It is at a later
stage that the I.P. was filed with a plea that the appellant is not
possessed of any movable or immovable properties. In schedule-B of the
I.P., a dilapidated thatched house and a mud terraced house at
Konakanamitla Village, were shown.;
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