LAWS(DR)-2003-7-8

ALLAHABAD BANK Vs. S S BRICK FIELD P LTD

Decided On July 14, 2003

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN a lawful action for recovery of debt from the six defendants, one of which has been impleaded by the applicant Bank as the necessary defendant because the said defendant has been impleaded in such lawful action as the party in view of being the first charge holder of the mortgage properties of the other defendants by dint of a tripartite agreement entered into between the applicant Bank on the one hand and the other defendants and the said specific defendant on the other, the pertinent issue, arising from the angle of law is: whether the applicant Bank shall be entitled to any relief against the said specific defendant. Such peculiar affair has arisen in respect of one Section 19 application preferred by the applicant Bank on February 9, 2000 before the learned Transferring Tribunal against the defendant Nos. 1 to 5 and the defendant No. 6 for realization of Rs. 12,79,132.05 p.

(2.) Before dealing with the above issue, it will be highly necessary to refer in brief, to the factual background behind the making of such an application.

(3.) THE said reply letter from the applicant Bank did contain in itself the hard and fast collateral securities to be furnished by the said applicant defendant company numbering about five; besides the above, the said letter did consist of the other terms and conditions numbering about twenty-eight; and on September 28, 1993, the acceptance of the sanction letter dated September 25, 1993 was specifically found to have been made by the said company. THE terms of sanction as specifically prescribed in the reply letter dated September 25, 1993 were agreed to be confirmed by the empowered and authorised Director on behalf of the said company. THE terms of sanction confirmed on behalf of the said company have been quoted below;