JUDGEMENT
NARENDRA NATH TIWARI, J. -
(1.) THIS civil revision application is against the order dated 11.10.2004 passed by Subordinate Judge, VIIth, Dhanbad in Title Suit No. 33 of 2002 whereby the opposite party Nos. 1 to 15, who
were plaintiffs, have been allowed to withdraw the suit. The grievance of the petitioner is that the
Court below has erroneously and illegally allowed the plaintiffs to withdraw the suit without taking
into consideration that the suit was filed through the petitioner who is the constituted attorney of all
the plaintiffs and the withdrawal has been allowed against the consent of the said attorney. The
Court below has passed a detailed order and recorded reasons. It has been noticed that the suit
was filed for declaration of the plaintiffs right in the suit land and for injunction. The petition had
been filed on behalf of all the plaintiffs along with Vakalatnama, which has been signed by all of
them. In the application, all the plaintiffs have stated that they have abandoned their claim over
the land and they did not want to proceed with the suit any more. It was further stated that earlier
power of attorney was given in favour of the petitioner, who misused the power and wrongly
implicated the said plaintiffs in litigation. The plaintiffs, thus, revoked the power of attorney dated
25.8.2003 and thereby the said attorney holder ceased to have any power. The said revocation was also advertised through local news paper. The deed of revocation of the said power of
attorney was also produced before the Court below, who perused the same and found that the
same was registered in Raniganj Sub Registry, District Burdwan (W.B.), completely revoking the
powers of the said attorney. The paper cutting of the local news paper were also produced before
the Court below by which it was made known to all concerned that the power given in favour of
the petitioner has been revoked. The defendant of the suit did not object to the withdrawal. The
learned Court below, on the said consideration has permitted the plaintiffs to withdraw the Trial Suit
No. 33 of 2002 for the ends of justice.
(2.) MR . V. Shivnath, learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submitted that in fact there is no revocation of power of attorney by all the executants of the said power, but only
four persons have revoked the same, learned counsel submitted that the petitioner, on the basis
of the said power, has already entered into several transactions and has also incurred liability and
that he is also to get some profit out of those transactions, as agreed by the plaintiffs. He further
submitted that the institution of the suit was one of the steps which would have ultimately fetched
some profit for the plaintiffs and also for the attorney -petitioner. According to the learned counsel in
that view, the Court below should not have allowed the plaintiffs to withdraw the suit.
Almost all the said grounds were also argued before the Court below. After due consideration of the contentions of the parties, the Court below has passed the impugned order. The petitioner is
mainly concerned with his interest on the basis of some agreement between him and the plaintiffs.
In my view if there is any agreement between the plaintiffs and the attorney holder creating any
rights and liabilities between them, the same has nothing to do with the defendants of Title Suit
No. 33 of 2002, who are strangers. The petitioner 'sclaim against the plaintiffs -opposite
parties has no concern with the said defendants and the withdrawal of the suit would not be in
any way a clog in seeking any legal remedy available to the petitioner against the said plaintiffs. I
do not find any illegality or error in exercise of jurisdiction by the Court below in passing the
impugned order.
(3.) THIS application is, accordingly, dismissed.;
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