GOMTI BAI Vs. BHARATI DAV
LAWS(MPH)-1995-4-46
HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH
Decided on April 25,1995

GOMTI BAI Appellant
VERSUS
Bharati Dav Respondents

JUDGEMENT

- (1.)THE defendants in a suit for eviction under the M.P. Accommodation Control Act, 1961 are the revision petitioners.
(2.)RESPONDENT filed a suit for eviction alleging that she purchased the building from one Kamlabai and the tenancy of the defendants who were tenants of Kamlabai has been terminated by notice. The defendants filed written statement denying the tenancy and attornment and further denied possession of Kamlabai and subsequent possession of the plaintiff. According to them, the building belonged to one Kandhilal who died during the pendency of the suit leaving behind his son Durga Prasad.
It appears that during the pendency of the suit, the defendants purchased the building from Durga Prasad. They filed two applications - - one under Order 13 Rule 2 C.P.C. producing the sale deed obtained from Durga Prasad and the other seeking amendment of written statement incorporating the averment relating to purchase. The plaintiff filed an application under Sec. 13 (6) of the Act for striking off the defence of the defendants for non -payment of rent. The lower Court by common order rejected the applications filed by the defendants and allowed the plaintiff's application directing the defendants to deposit rent by 16.4.1994. This order is now challenged.

(3.)THE sale deed sought to be produced by the defendants was no doubt obtained after suit. But that relates to the suit property and the contention that the property belonged to the vendor has already been raised in the written statement. The defendant was only trying to bring to the notice of the Court the subsequent events by producing the document as well as incorporating the necessary averments in the written statement. The lower Court in dismissing the two applications failed to exercise jurisdiction vested in it thereby causing irreparable prejudice to the defendants.


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