High Court Rajasthan High Court - Jodhpur

Bhanwar Lal & Ors vs Smt. Meena Devi & Ors on 7 August, 2008

Rajasthan High Court – Jodhpur
Bhanwar Lal & Ors vs Smt. Meena Devi & Ors on 7 August, 2008
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           S.B. CIVIL FIRST APPEAL NO.80/1985
      LRs of Bhanwar Lal Vs. LRs of Meena Devi & Ors.



Date of Order ::   7th August 2008.

      HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH MAHESHWARI

Mr.Ramit Mehta, for the appellants.
Mr.R.R.Nagori        )
Mr.Sushil Bishnoi for)
Mr.Manoj Bhandari ) for the respondents.

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BY THE COURT:

Civil suit for recovery of possession, declaration and

perpetual injunction (CO No.13/1980) having been dismissed

by the learned District Judge, Bikaner on 11.05.1985, the

unsuccessful plaintiff Bhanwar Lal filed this first appeal on

06.08.1985 arraying the defendants Nos. 1 to 4, Smt. Meena

Devi, Bheru Lal, Jai Narain and Lal Chand as respondents

No.1,2, 3 and 4 respectively. This appeal was admitted for

consideration on 02.09.1985; and on 01.11.1985, the

contesting respondent No. 1 filed her cross-objections in

relation to some of the findings of the Trial Court.

The plaintiff-appellant Bhanwar Lal thereafter expired

and his legal representatives were substituted as appellants in

his place. The contesting respondent No.1 Meena Devi also

expired and for representation of her estate, the respondents
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Nos. 1/1 and 1/2, Mahesh Kumar and Dinesh Kumar, were

ordered to be substituted by the order dated 15.09.2006 with

similar substitutions in the connected cross-objections. It has

been pointed out on behalf of the respondent No.1/2 Dinesh

Kumar that he has not claimed himself to be the legal

representative of the deceased defendant-respondent Smt.

Meena Devi and has admitted the respondent No.1/1 Mahesh

Kumar to be her adopted son.

The respondent No.2 Bheru Lal was also reported to

have expired and steps having not been taken in his relation,

the appeal abated against him as ordered on 10.10.2003. It

has also pointed out that the respondents Nos. 3 and 4, Jai

Narain and Lal Chand, too have no direct interest in this

litigation and nobody is appearing on their behalf.

An application (IA No.9052/2008) has been moved in

this case stating that the contesting parties have arrived at a

compromise. While referring to the aforementioned

background facts, it has further been stated that Smt. Indra,

wife of Shri Jagdish Prasad and daughter of late Shri

Bhanwarlal, has also expired. The said Smt. Indra was

substituted on record as one of the legal representatives of the

deceased appellant Bhanwal Lal but has been described as

the legal representative of Meena Devi in paragraph 5 of the

said application; and another application (IA No.9895/2008)
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has been moved today with the submissions that such

description of Smt. Indra had been for a typographical error in

the said paragraph 5 of the compromise filed before the Court.

It is further submitted by learned counsel appearing for the

appellants that the name of the said Smt.Indra may be ordered

to be struck off the record. In view of the submissions so made

by the learned counsel for the appellant, the name of the

appellant No.1/6 Smt. Indra is ordered to be deleted from the

array of the parties and a note to that effect be put against her

name.

It is further prayed on behalf of the parties that in terms

of their compromise as stated in the aforesaid application (IA

No. 9052/2008), the legal representatives of the appellant wish

to withdraw the present appeal as well as the original civil suit

bearing No. 13/1980 and the legal representative of the

respondent No. 1 also wish to withdraw the cross-objections

filed in this appeal. It has also been stated that Mahesh Kumar

shall withdraw the other civil original suit bearing number

237/2003 (New number 198/2005) pending in the Court of

Additional District Judge (Fast Track) No.3, Bikaner.

The application aforesaid (IA No. 9052/2008) in the form

of deed of compromise has been signed by the surviving legal

representatives of the deceased appellant Bhanwar Lal and by

the legal representative of the respondent No.1 Meena Devi;
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and has been attested by the Notary Public at Bikaner on

09.07.2008. Counsel for the parties prays for disposal of the

matter in terms of the compromise between parties.

In view of the submissions made by the learned counsel

for the parties, the appellants are permitted to withdraw

Original Civil Suit No.13/1980; and the suit stands dismissed

as withdrawn. The suit itself having been withdrawn, the

present appeal and related cross-objections are rendered

redundant and are dismissed as withdrawn, as prayed.

No costs.

Interlocutory applications aforesaid also stand disposed

of.

(DINESH MAHESHWARI), J.

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