JUDGEMENT
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(1.) This revision has arisen out of the order dated 25.6.2011
(Annexure P.5) passed by the learned Vacation Judge (Chief Judicial
Magistrate), Chandigarh vide which ex parte injunction as asked in
the application under Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 of the Code of Civil
Procedure (herein referred as the Code) was not granted to the
petitioner.
(2.) The dispute relates to house No.506 Sector 8-B,
Chandigarh, which according to the petitioner, has been divided into
three portions vide family settlement dated 24.7.2003 (Annexure P.1)
whereby portion A was given to the defendant/petitioner and portion
B and C were given to plaintiff/respondents No.1 and 2.
The plaintiff had filed a suit in the year 2009 but an
application was filed by the petitioner during vacation of June, 2011
against the respondents not to alienate their shares in the property.
Vide impugned order (Annexure P.5), the court did not grant ex parte
injunction and observed: that the plaintiff herself has stated that as
per family settlement property bearing No.506, Sector 8-B,
Chandigarh was divided into three portions. Portion A was given to
Bharatpal Singh present petitioner and portions B and C were given
to respondent Nos. 1 and 2. All the co-owners are exclusively
occupying their portions as per partition. Besides declining the
application on the aforesaid grounds, the trial court declined to grant
ex parte injunction on other ground that the other party is required to
be heard before granting any injunction. Therefore, notice was
issued to the other party for 28.6.2011 by the trial court. The court
also summoned the main file from the concerned court. Court also
ordered to issue dasti summons for service upon the respondents.
Consequently, the file was sent to Shri Gurpartap Singh, learned
Vacation Judge on the date fixed. Applicant was also directed to
appear before the said Court on the date fixed.
Feeling aggrieved against the aforesaid impugned order,
present revision petition has been filed.
(3.) At the motion stage the petitioner Bharat Pal Singh now
represented by legal representatives while urging that as per memo
of settlement they had pre-emptory right to purchase the property
and the right of pre-emption has been recognized by Section 22 of
the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 and prayed for injunction.
Thus, the court vide order dated 1.7.2011 restrained the
respondents not to hand over any part of the premises to the vendee.
Obviously, by that time the sale deed has been executed by the
respondents No. 1 and 2 and possession was still to be handed over.
Now learned senior counsel for the petitioner, without
urging further with regard to the maintainability of the revision petition
and without considering if Section 22 of the Hindu Succession Act,
1956 is applicable to the facts of the present case, has urged that
Section 22 of the Act was not pressed into service by the petitioner
at that time, has requested that the trial court could be directed to
decide the application within time frame in order to avoid further
controversy between the parties.;
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