- (1.) BY way of the instant writ petition, the petitioners have beseeched to quash and set-aside the orders dated 24th March, 2011 and 3rd June, 2006 passed by Additional District Judge, Khetri and Civil Judge (Sr.Div.), Khetri, respectively.
(2.) HAVING heard the learned counsel for the parties and carefully perused the relevant material on record including the impugned orders, it is noticed that a suit was filed by plaintiff/decree holder/respondent against petitioners/judgment debtors for the recovery of amount of Rs. 38,500/-, which came to be decreed in their favour vide judgment and decree dated 7.4.2000. Subsequently, an application was filed by the respondent-decree holder for execution of the decree dated 7.4.2000, whereupon the warrant of attachment of the property of was issued. The respondent / decree holder filed an application before the learned court below imploring that the petitioners may be directed to produce the entire accounts with documents as regard to sole proprietary rights in immovable property, shop and Thelas. The learned executing court, having analyzed the matter ad-longum allowed the said application vide order dated 3rd June, 2006. Aggrieved with the order dated 3rd June, 2006, the petitioners-judgment debtors preferred an appeal before the learned appellate court. The learned appellate court also, vide its order dated 24th March, 2011, dismissed the appeal of the petitioners-judgment debtors and affirmed the order of the learned executing court. Thus, there has been a concurrent finding of fact of both the courts below. The Full Bench of the Hon'ble Apex court in the case of Kshitish Chandra Bose Versus Commissioner of Ranchi reported in AIR 1981 Supreme Court 707 (1) categorically observed that the Patna High Court clearly exceeded its jurisdiction in reversing the pure concurrent findings of fact given by the trial court and the then appellate court. In the case of Mst. Kharbuja Kuer Versus Jangbahadur Rai, (1963) 1 SCR 456, the Hon'ble Apex Court held that the High Court had no jurisdiction to entertain second appeal on findings of fact even if it was erroneous. In this connection, the Apex court observed as follows: "It is settled law that the High Court has no jurisdiction to entertain a second appeal on the ground of erroneous finding of fact. As the two Courts, approached the evidence from a correct perspective and gave a concurrent finding of fact, the High Court had no jurisdiction to interfere with the said finding." To the same effect is another decision of the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of R. Ramachandra Ayyar V. Ramalingam, Chettiar reported in (1963) 3 SCR 604, where the Court observed as follows: "But the High Court cannot interfere with the conclusions of fact recorded by the lower Appellate Court, however erroneous the said conclusions may appear to be to the High Court, because as the Privy Council observed, however, gross or inexcusably the error may seem to be there is no jurisdiction under Section 100 to correct that error." The same view was taken in two earlier decisions of the Hon'ble Apex court in the case of D. Pattabhiramaswamy V. Hanymayya reported in AIR 1959 SC 57 and Raruha Singh Versus Achal Singh reported in AIR 1961 SC 1097.
(3.) IN this case, the Hon'ble Apex Court observed that the High Court had no jurisdiction after reversing the concurrent findings of fact of the courts below and remand the case to the Additional Judicial Commissioner. The conclusion, therefore, is inescapable that this Court should not invoke extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution to upset the pure findings of fact of two courts below. The scope of the High Court under Article 227 of the Constitution is limited. This extraordinary jurisdiction can be invoked only when the judgment of the court below is found to be perverse or contrary to material or it results in manifesting injustice. I do not find any ground to upset the pure findings of fact and thus, the writ petition filed by the petitioners deserves to be dismissed and the impugned orders rendered by both the courts below do not warrant any intervention. For these reasons, the writ petition fails and the same being bereft of any merit deserves to be dismissed, which stands dismissed accordingly. ;