{"id":65877,"date":"2010-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-of-u-p-vs-ist-addl-district-judge-lucknow-on-1-february-2010"},"modified":"2016-01-15T05:08:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T23:38:13","slug":"state-of-u-p-vs-ist-addl-district-judge-lucknow-on-1-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-of-u-p-vs-ist-addl-district-judge-lucknow-on-1-february-2010","title":{"rendered":"State Of U.P. vs Ist Addl. District Judge, Lucknow &#8230; on 1 February, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">State Of U.P. vs Ist Addl. District Judge, Lucknow &#8230; on 1 February, 2010<\/div>\n<pre>                                      1\n\n                                                             Court No.11\n\n                    Writ Petition No. 7093 (M\/S) of 1989\n\nState of U.P. and another                                    Petitioners\n\n                                   Vs.\nIst Additional District Judge, Lucknow\nand another                                          Opposite parties.\n                           -----------\n<\/pre>\n<p>Hon&#8217;ble Anil Kumar J.\n<\/p>\n<p>      Heard Sri Deepak Malhotra learned counsel for the petitioner.<br \/>\nMatter is taken on the revised list non appear from the side of<br \/>\nrespondent.\n<\/p>\n<p>              In brief the facts of the present case are that the flat no. 34<br \/>\nRaj   Bhawan       Colony,    Lucknow      was    allotted    to   one     Sri.<br \/>\nK.M.Srivastava(Opposite Party No. 2) . In the capacity of special<br \/>\nsecretary (Planning Department of Uttar Pradesh) Lucknow, he was<br \/>\nretired on 30.9.85. After his retirement he had not vacated the premises<br \/>\nin question and retained the same up till 1.12.1986.\n<\/p>\n<p>       In view of the above fact a notice under section 7 (2) of the U.P.<br \/>\nPublic Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1972<br \/>\nhereinafter referred as Act was issued by the Prescribed authority.\n<\/p>\n<p>      In the response to the notice respondent no. 2 submit his reply on<br \/>\n16th April 1986. By order dated 29.3.88, the prescribed authority had<br \/>\ndirected that respondent no.2 shall pay a sum of Rs.54,000\/- as damages<br \/>\nat the rate of Rs. 3,000 per month for retaining the premises in question<br \/>\nas unauthorized occupant for a period July 1985 to 1.12..86 i.e. 18<br \/>\nmonths.\n<\/p>\n<p>               Aggrieved by the said order Sri K.M. Srivastava had filed<br \/>\nan appeal under section 9 of the Act before the Additional District Judge,<br \/>\nLucknow (Appeal no.180 of 1988) K.M.Srivastava Vs. Rajya Sampati<br \/>\nAdhikari. By order dated 27th March 1989 the respondent no. 1 allowed<br \/>\nthe appeal and directed that the standard rent including water charges for<br \/>\nthe period in question shall be payable at the rate of Rs. 294.75 instead of<br \/>\nRs. 3,000 per month.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                      2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>      The order dated 27th March 1989 passed by Opposite Party No. 1<br \/>\nas under challenge in the present writ petition.\n<\/p>\n<p>      From the perusal of the record of the present case it transpires that<br \/>\ninitially on 25.10.89 this court had admitted the writ petition and issue<br \/>\nthe notice to the opposite party no. 2 to take Counter Affidavit, however,<br \/>\nthe office by his report dated 17.9.09 had submitted that the service on<br \/>\nopposite party no.2 Sri. K.M.Srivastava was deemed sufficient in view of<br \/>\nthe provision as prescribed under chapter 8 rule 12 of the Allahabad<br \/>\nHigh Court rules 1952. Sri. Deepak Malhotra learned counsel for the<br \/>\npetitioner while assailing the order dated 27th March 1989 passed by the<br \/>\nopposite party no. 1 has submitted that the said order under challenge is<br \/>\ntotally arbitrary in nature as no valid reason whatsoever had been<br \/>\nassigned by the opposite party no.1 thereby reducing the damages from<br \/>\nRs. 3,000 per month of Rs. 294.75 Paise and only on the ground of<br \/>\nsympathy, which the court below had passed the impugned order as such<br \/>\nsame cannot be done under law, so the impugned order is liable to be<br \/>\nquashed.\n<\/p>\n<p>       As stated above the notice on the opposite party no. 2           Sri<br \/>\nK.M.Srivastava was held tobe deemed sufficient as per office report and<br \/>\nnobody has put in appearance on his behalf. After hearing the learned<br \/>\ncounsel for the petitioner, and going through the record in the present<br \/>\ncase it is not disputed that the premises in question was allotted in favour<br \/>\nof the opposite party no. 2 on the capacity of serving officer of the State<br \/>\nGovernment and he retired from services on 1st July 1985 but retain the<br \/>\npremises up to 1.12.1986 as        unauthorized occupation, accordingly<br \/>\ninitially, notice had been issued under Section 7(2) of the Act, to which<br \/>\nrespondent no.2 submitted his reply and after taking into consideration<br \/>\nthe prescribed authority had passed the order dated 29.3.1988. The said<br \/>\norder was challenged in appeal by opposite party no.2 and the same was<br \/>\nallowed by opposite party No. 1 by order dated 27.3.1989 and the<br \/>\namount from damages\/ standard rent including water charge was reduced<br \/>\nfrom Rs. 3,000 per month to Rs. 294.75. From the perusal of the<br \/>\nimpugned order which is under challenge, it is crystal clear that while<br \/>\nreducing the rent reason which is given by the opposite party no.1 was<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                       3<\/span><\/p>\n<p>stated in paragraph 5 of the order dated 27.3.1989 which inter alia<br \/>\nprovides that &#8221; After hearing the learned counsel for both the parties at<br \/>\nlength perusing the papers on record and seeing the circumstances of the<br \/>\ncase, I am of the opinion that the appellant deserves for sympathy in the<br \/>\npresent case. I am also of the opinion that a lenient view may be taken<br \/>\ninto the matter of damages. I am also of the opinion that the amount of<br \/>\ndamages i.e. Rs. 3000\/- per month, claimed by Prescribed Authority is<br \/>\nvery much excessive and is not maintainable at all.&#8221; The said reason on<br \/>\npart of the opposite party no.1 thereby passing the impugned order and<br \/>\nreducing the damages for unauthorized occupation of the premises in<br \/>\nquestion by the opposite party no. 2 is totally contrary to law and<br \/>\nprocedure as provides the Act and U. P Public Premises(Eviction of<br \/>\nUnauthorized) Occupants Rule 1973 .\n<\/p>\n<p>         Needless to mention herein that Rule 8 of the Uttar Pradesh Public<br \/>\nPremises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants ) Rule 1973 provides<br \/>\ndetail procedure for assessment of damages in respect for use and<br \/>\noccupation of any public premises, the same shall be taken into<br \/>\nconsideration by an authority while passing an order under the Act<br \/>\nagainst an unauthorized person for occupation of a public premises.<br \/>\nHowever, in the present case the order dated 27.3.1989 passed by<br \/>\nopposite party no. 1 in appeal no. 180 of 1988. (Shri K. M. Srivastava<br \/>\nV\/s Rajya Sampati Adhikari) was not on the yardstick as given under<br \/>\nRule 8 of the Rules, so the same was contrary to law and liable to be set<br \/>\naside.\n<\/p>\n<p>         For the foregoing reason the Writ Petition is allowed, order dated<br \/>\n27.3.1989 passed by the 1st Additional District Judge, Lucknow is hereby<br \/>\nquashed, the matter is remanded back to the opposite party no.1 to decide<br \/>\nthe same keeping in view          the observation made hereinabove, in<br \/>\naccordance with the law further for the said purpose the opposite party<br \/>\nno.1 shall issue notice to the opposite party no.2 Sri K.M.Srivastava and<br \/>\nafter hearing him shall decide the matter afresh expeditiously.<br \/>\n01.02.2010<br \/>\nMahesh Kumar\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court State Of U.P. vs Ist Addl. District Judge, Lucknow &#8230; on 1 February, 2010 1 Court No.11 Writ Petition No. 7093 (M\/S) of 1989 State of U.P. and another Petitioners Vs. Ist Additional District Judge, Lucknow and another Opposite parties. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Hon&#8217;ble Anil Kumar J. Heard Sri Deepak Malhotra learned counsel for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allahabad-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State Of U.P. vs Ist Addl. 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