Das Gupta, J. - (1.) An application having been made under sub-section (8) of section 37A of the Bengal Agricultural Debtors' Act to the Subordinate Judge, West Dinajpur, objection was taken on behalf of the opposite parties that as under sub-section (8) the application has to be made to the Civil Court at whose order the property was sold and the sale was held by what was then the Subordinate Judge's Court, Dinajpur, on the 5th February, 1936, the Subordinate Judge's Court, West Dinajpur, could not entertain this application. The learned Subordinate Judge rejected this application, as, in his view, the jurisdiction of the Dinajpur Court for passing an order under sub-section (8) of section 37A must be deemed to have vested in his court in view of the provisions of section 10 of the Indian (Adaptation of Existing Indian Laws) Order, 1947. On appeal the learned Additional District Judge, West Dinajpur, held that section 10 of the Indian (Adaptation of Existing Indian Laws) Order, 1947, was not applicable to the present case but that on an analogy to the provisions of section 37 of the Civil Procedure Code, the application under subsection (8) of section 37A of the Bengal Agricultural Debtors Act was rightly made to the Subordinate Judge's Court, West Dinajpur.
(2.) It is contended before us on behalf of the appellant decree-holder that section 37 of the Civil Procedure Code has no application and that assuming section 10 of the Indian (Adaptation of Existing Indian Laws) Order, 1947, does apply, the matter has to be sent to the local Government for deciding what adaptation should be made.
(3.) We have come to the conclusion that this question, namely, whether section 37 of the Civil Procedure Code has any application or whether section 10 of the Indian (Adaptation of Existing Indian Laws) Order, 1947, should be applied, does not fall to be considered in the present case inasmuch as the effect of the notification under which the court before which the application was filed was created is that it has to be deemed to be the same court as the court at whose order the property was sold. This notification is No. 5963J, dated 17th October, 1947, and published in the "Calcutta Gazette" of the 6th November, 1947. It is in these words : "In exercise of the powers conferred by section 13, sub-section (1) of the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887 (XII of 1887), and in supersession of all previous notifications on the subject the Governor is pleased to direct that on and from the 17th August, 1947, the Court of the Subordinate Judge of Dinajpur and Jalpaiguri shall be deemed to have been and shall be styled the Court of the Subordinate Judge of West Dinajpur and Jalpaiguri with its headquarters at the station of Jalpaiguri and its limits shall be deemed to have been and shall be altered so as to include the districts of West Dinajpur and Jalpaiguri as specified in this Government notifications 60 G., dated the 17th August, 1947, and No. 64 G.A, dated the 17th August, 1947. respectively...........";