JUDGEMENT
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(1.) THIS is a second appeal by the plaintiffs. A suit for possession under Section 9, Specific Relief
act, was instituted by the respondent against one Sm. Savitri and her husband Banarasi Das. During the pendency of that suit the present appellants purchased the property from Smt. Savitri. They were impleaded as parties to the litigation and a decree for possession was passed against
them also.
(2.) THEY have now filed the suit which has given rise to this second appeal to obtain an injunction
restraining the respondent from executing the decree. Both the courts below have dismissed the
suit. In my opinion also such a suit does not lie. The appellants must first surrender possession
and thereafter they can set up any right they like on the basis of title. If they are granted an
injunction restraining the respondent from executing her decree the very object, and purpose of
the suit under Section 9, Specific Relief Act, will be defeated. The object and purpose of that suit
are that if a person takes the law in his own hands and forcibly dispossesses another otherwise
than in accordance with law he must surrender possession irrespective of any title that may vest
in him. If a plea of title cannot be set up in the suit itself, it can also not be set up as a bar to
execution proceedings.
(3.) I am, therefore, of the opinion that the appellants must first surrender possession to the
respondent in execution of the decree passed under Section 9, Specific Relief Act, and then they
may assert any right which they may possess.;
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