{"id":99400,"date":"2009-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ram-chandra-shri-ram-anr-vs-bal-kishan-ors-on-22-october-2009-2"},"modified":"2019-01-08T05:50:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T00:20:04","slug":"ram-chandra-shri-ram-anr-vs-bal-kishan-ors-on-22-october-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ram-chandra-shri-ram-anr-vs-bal-kishan-ors-on-22-october-2009-2","title":{"rendered":"Ram Chandra @ Shri Ram &amp; Anr vs Bal Kishan &amp; Ors on 22 October, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Rajasthan High Court &#8211; Jodhpur<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Ram Chandra @ Shri Ram &amp; Anr vs Bal Kishan &amp; Ors on 22 October, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>                                                             1\n                                            SBCSA No. 252\/2008\n\n\n   IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT\n                     JODHPUR\n\n                     JUDGMENT\n\n         S.B. Civil Second Appeal No. 252\/08\n      Ramchandra @ Sriram &amp; Anr. Vs. Balkishan &amp; Ors.\n\n\n             Date of Judgment :     22\/10\/2009\n\n\n                          PRESENT\n             HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.R.PANWAR\n\n\nMr. Aklavya Bhansali for the appellants.\nMr. Rajesh Joshi for the respondents.\n\n\nBY THE COURT<\/pre>\n<p>             This civil second appeal under Section 22 of the<\/p>\n<p>Rajasthan Premises (Control of Rent and Eviction) Act, 1950 (for<\/p>\n<p>short &#8216;the Act of 1950&#8217; hereinafter) r\/w Section 100 of Code of<\/p>\n<p>Civil Procedure (for short &#8216;the Code&#8217; hereinafter) is directed<\/p>\n<p>against the judgment and decree dated 17.5.2008 passed by<\/p>\n<p>Additional District Judge No.2, Jodhpur (for short &#8216;the first<\/p>\n<p>appellate court&#8217; hereinafter) in Civil Appeal Decree No. 108\/07<\/p>\n<p>whereby the appeal filed by the appellants defendants against<\/p>\n<p>the judgment and decree dated 23.11.2004 passed by Additional<\/p>\n<p>Civil Judge (Jr. Div.) No.2, Jodhpur (for short &#8216;the trial court&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>hereinafter) in Civil Original Suit No.34\/01, was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>           During the pendency of the appeal, an application<\/p>\n<p>being I.A. No. 12861\/08 came to be filed by the appellants<\/p>\n<p>defendants under Order 41 Rule 27 r\/w Section 151 of the Code<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                                  2<\/span><br \/>\n                                                SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>seeking to take on record the certified copy of the Voter List .<\/p>\n<p>            I have heard learned counsel for the parties on the<\/p>\n<p>application under Order 41 Rule 27 r\/w Section 151 of the Code<\/p>\n<p>as also on the merit of the appeal. Carefully gone through the<\/p>\n<p>judgment and decree of the trial court as well as of the first<\/p>\n<p>appellate court.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Learned    counsel     appearing    for   the    appellants<\/p>\n<p>contended that the certified copy of the Voter List issued by the<\/p>\n<p>Election   Officer   shows   the   names   of    Vijay      Kumar   and<\/p>\n<p>Ramchandra to whom the respondent plaintiff alleged to be sub-<\/p>\n<p>tenant or to whom the rented premises have otherwise been<\/p>\n<p>parted with the possession by the respondent No.2 Prakash.<\/p>\n<p>Learned counsel for the appellant-applicants contended that the<\/p>\n<p>Voter List annexed with the application showing names of Vijay<\/p>\n<p>Kumar and Ramchandra &amp; their his family members would make<\/p>\n<p>out a case that they had been residing since long and therefore,<\/p>\n<p>he submits that the application under Order 41 Rule 27 r\/w<\/p>\n<p>Section 151 of the Code be considered and decided at the time<\/p>\n<p>of hearing of the appeal on merit. Learned counsel for the<\/p>\n<p>appellant-applicants has relied on a decision of Hon&#8217;ble Supreme<\/p>\n<p>Court in North Eastern Railway Administration, Gorakhpur Vs.<\/p>\n<p>Bhagwan Das (Dead) By LRs. (2008) 8 SCC, 511 wherein<\/p>\n<p>Hon&#8217;ble Supreme Court while considering the provisions of Order<\/p>\n<p>41 Rule 27 and Sections 100 and 107 of the Code held that the<\/p>\n<p>High Court was bound to consider the application under Order 41<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                               3<\/span><br \/>\n                                             SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>Rule 27 CPC before taking up the appeal on merits. The question<\/p>\n<p>whether looking into the documents, sought to be filed as<\/p>\n<p>additional evidence, would be necessary to pronounce judgment<\/p>\n<p>in a more satisfactory manner, has to be considered by the Court<\/p>\n<p>at the time of hearing of the appeal on merits. The appellate<\/p>\n<p>court has the power to allow additional evidence not only if it<\/p>\n<p>requires such evidence &#8220;to enable it to pronounce judgment&#8221; but<\/p>\n<p>also for &#8220;any other substantial cause&#8221;. Though the general rule is<\/p>\n<p>that ordinarily the appellate court should not travel outside the<\/p>\n<p>record of the lower court and additional evidence, whether oral<\/p>\n<p>or documentary is not admitted, but Section 107 CPC which<\/p>\n<p>carves out an exception to the general rule, enables an appellate<\/p>\n<p>court to take additional evidence or to require such evidence to<\/p>\n<p>be taken subject to such conditions and limitations as may be<\/p>\n<p>prescribed. These conditions are prescribed under Order 41 Rule<\/p>\n<p>27 CPC.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Learned   counsel   appearing    for   the   respondent<\/p>\n<p>plaintiff opposed the application. Learned counsel appearing for<\/p>\n<p>the respondent plaintiff has relied on a decision of Hon&#8217;ble<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court in Basayya I. Mathad Vs. Rudrayya S. Mathad &amp;<\/p>\n<p>Ors. AIR 2008 SC 1108 wherein Hon&#8217;ble Supreme Court held<\/p>\n<p>that it is clear that parties to the lis are not entitled to produce<\/p>\n<p>additional evidence as of course or routine but must satisfy the<\/p>\n<p>conditions stated in sub-clauses (a) &amp; (aa).       In that case, the<\/p>\n<p>condition stated in Sub-clause (a) and (aa) has not been<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                               4<\/span><br \/>\n                                             SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>resorted to neither by the party concerned nor adhered those<\/p>\n<p>principles by the High Court and therefore, the finding based on<\/p>\n<p>documents produced therein by the High court at the time of<\/p>\n<p>argument was held to be dehors to Rule 27 of the Code and<\/p>\n<p>therefore, it was unsustainable in the eye of law. It was held by<\/p>\n<p>the Apex Court that in fact, sub-clause (2) of Rule 27 mandates<\/p>\n<p>that wherever additional evidence is allowed to be produced by<\/p>\n<p>an Appellate Court, it shall record the reason for its admission. It<\/p>\n<p>is needless to mention that the High Court neither followed those<\/p>\n<p>conditions for production of additional evidence nor recorded the<\/p>\n<p>reason for basing reliance on the same.\n<\/p>\n<p>            In Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation<\/p>\n<p>Vs. M\/s Cork Manufacturing Co., AIR 2008 SC 56, the Hon&#8217;ble<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court held that Order 41 Rule 27 of the CPC does not<\/p>\n<p>empower an appellate court to accept additional evidence on the<\/p>\n<p>ground that such evidence could not be produced or filed either<\/p>\n<p>before the trial Court or before the first appellate Court due to<\/p>\n<p>inadvertence or lack of proper legal advice. Neither can it be said<\/p>\n<p>that lack of proper legal advice or inadvertence to produce the<\/p>\n<p>legal notice in evidence is a ground to hold that there was<\/p>\n<p>substantial cause for acceptance of the additional evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, non-realization of the importance of the documents<\/p>\n<p>due to inadvertence or lack of proper legal advice also would not<\/p>\n<p>bring the case within the expression &#8220;other substantial cause&#8221; in<\/p>\n<p>Order 41 Rule 27 of the C.P.C. and on those premises, the Apex<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                               5<\/span><br \/>\n                                             SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>Court held that the legal notice could not be admitted as<\/p>\n<p>additional evidence.\n<\/p>\n<p>              Order 41 Rule 27 of the Code provides for production<\/p>\n<p>of additional evidence in Appellate Court which is reproduced<\/p>\n<p>hereunder:-\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O.41 R. 27. Production of additional evidence in Appellate<br \/>\nCourt.- (1) The parties to an appeal shall not be entitled to<br \/>\nproduce additional evidence, whether oral or documentary, in<br \/>\nthe Appellate Court. But if-\n<\/p>\n<p>      (a) the Court from whose decree the appeal is preferred<br \/>\nhas refused to admit evidence which ought to have been<br \/>\nadmitted, or<br \/>\n      (aa) the party seeking to produce additional evidence,<br \/>\nestablishes that notwithstanding the exercise of due diligence,<br \/>\nsuch evidence was not within his knowledge or could not, after<br \/>\nthe exercise of due diligence, be produced by him at the time<br \/>\nwhen the decree appealed against was passed, or\n<\/p>\n<p>      (b) the Appellate Court requires any document to be<br \/>\nproduced or any witness to be examined to enable it to<br \/>\npronounce judgment, or for any other substantial cause,<br \/>\nthe Appellate Court may allow such evidence or document to be<br \/>\nproduced, or witness to be examined.\n<\/p>\n<p>(2) Whenever additional evidence is allowed to be produced by<br \/>\nan Appellate Court, the Court shall record the reason for its<br \/>\nadmission.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>              In the instant case, neither the document sought to<\/p>\n<p>be taken on record is necessary for pronouncement of judgment<\/p>\n<p>nor for any other substantial cause, when indisputably the<\/p>\n<p>appellant-applicant failed to satisfy the requirement of Rule 27<\/p>\n<p>(a) and (aa). It is not the case of the appellant-applicants that<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                              6<\/span><br \/>\n                                            SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>the Court from whose decree the appeal is preferred has refused<\/p>\n<p>to admit evidence, since no such efforts were made by the<\/p>\n<p>appellant-applicants to produce additional evidence before the<\/p>\n<p>first appellate court. So far as seeking to produced additional<\/p>\n<p>evidence by producing Voter List, it is not the case of the<\/p>\n<p>appellant-applicants that notwithstanding the exercise of due<\/p>\n<p>diligence, such document was not within their knowledge or<\/p>\n<p>could not, after the exercise of due diligence, be produced by<\/p>\n<p>them at the time when the decree appealed against was passed.<\/p>\n<p>In the circumstances, therefore, the decision relied on by learned<\/p>\n<p>counsel for the appellant-applicants is of no help to them.    In<\/p>\n<p>this view of the matter, in my view, the applicant-appellants<\/p>\n<p>failed to make out a case admitting the document as additional<\/p>\n<p>evidence at the stage of second appeal and therefore, the<\/p>\n<p>application under Order 41 Rule 27 r\/w Section 151 of the Code<\/p>\n<p>being IA No.12861\/08 is hereby dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<p>           Learned counsel for the appellants arguing on the<\/p>\n<p>merit of the appeal contended that the burden to prove the issue<\/p>\n<p>of sub-letting \/ otherwise parting with the possession of rented<\/p>\n<p>premises was wrongly casted on the appellant defendant tenant<\/p>\n<p>by both the courts below.      It is further contended that the<\/p>\n<p>respondent plaintiff failed to plead and make out a case of sub-<\/p>\n<p>letting or otherwise parting with the possession of the premises<\/p>\n<p>in question. It was also contended that initial onus is on the<\/p>\n<p>landlord respondent plaintiff to establish the factum of sub-<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                              7<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                            SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>letting or otherwise parting with the possession of the premises<\/p>\n<p>which the respondent plaintiff failed to discharge. Learned<\/p>\n<p>counsel for the appellants has relied on decisions of Hon&#8217;ble<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court in Boodireddy Chandraiah and Ors. Vs. Arigela<\/p>\n<p>Laxmi and Anr., 2008 DNJ (SC) 1009, in State Bank of India and<\/p>\n<p>Ors. Vs. S.N.Goyal, AIR 2008 SC 2594, in Kala and another Vs.<\/p>\n<p>Madho Parshad Vaidya, AIR 1998 SC 2773 and a decision of this<\/p>\n<p>Court in Shakuntala Devi Vs. Leeladhar Agrawal, 2001 (5)<\/p>\n<p>Western Law Cases (Raj.), 787.\n<\/p>\n<p>           In Boodireddy Chandraiah and Ors. Vs. Arigela Laxmi<\/p>\n<p>and Anr. (supra) while considering the expression &#8220;substantial<\/p>\n<p>question of law&#8221;, the Hon&#8217;ble Supreme Court held that to be<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;substantial&#8221; a question of law must be debatable, not previously<\/p>\n<p>settled by law of the land or a binding precedent, and must have<\/p>\n<p>a material bearing on the decision of the case, if answered either<\/p>\n<p>way, insofar as the rights of the parties before it are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>To be a question of law &#8220;involving in the case&#8221; there must be<\/p>\n<p>first a foundation for it laid in the pleadings and the question<\/p>\n<p>should emerge from the sustainable findings of fact arrived at by<\/p>\n<p>Court of facts and it must be necessary to decide that question<\/p>\n<p>of law for a just and proper decision of the case. An entirely new<\/p>\n<p>point raised for the first time before the High Court is not a<\/p>\n<p>question involved in the case unless it goes to the root of the<\/p>\n<p>matter. It will, therefore, depend on the facts and circumstances<\/p>\n<p>of each case whether a question of law is a substantial one and<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                                8<\/span><br \/>\n                                              SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>involved in the case, or not; the paramount overall consideration<\/p>\n<p>being the need for striking a judicious balance between the<\/p>\n<p>indispensable obligation to do justice at all stages and impelling<\/p>\n<p>necessity of avoiding prolongation in the life of any lis.<\/p>\n<p>            In State Bank of India and Ors. Vs. S.N.Goyal<\/p>\n<p>(supra), while considering the word &#8220;substantial&#8221;, the Hon&#8217;ble<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court held that the word &#8216;substantial&#8217; prefixed to<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;question of law&#8217; does not refer to the stakes involved in the<\/p>\n<p>case, nor intended to refer only to questions of law of general<\/p>\n<p>importance, but refers to impact or effect of the question of law<\/p>\n<p>on the decision in the lis between the parties. &#8216;Substantial<\/p>\n<p>questions of law&#8217; means not only substantial questions of law of<\/p>\n<p>general importance, but also substantial question of law arising<\/p>\n<p>in a case as between the parties.\n<\/p>\n<p>            In Kala and another Vs. Madho Parshad Vaidya<\/p>\n<p>(supra) while considering the provision of Himachal Pradesh<\/p>\n<p>Urban Rent Control Act, Section 14 (2) (ii) eviction on the<\/p>\n<p>ground of sub-letting, the Apex Court held that initial onus is on<\/p>\n<p>landlord to prove sub-letting.\n<\/p>\n<p>            This Court in Shakuntala Devi Vs. Leeladhar Agrawal<\/p>\n<p>(supra), held that if there is conflict of oral evidence of the<\/p>\n<p>parties on any issue and the decision hinges upon the credibility<\/p>\n<p>of witnesses, then only upon a peculiar situation as to the<\/p>\n<p>evidence of a particular witness having escaped notice of the trial<\/p>\n<p>Court or only if there is a sufficient balance of improbability to<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                                9<\/span><br \/>\n                                              SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>displace his opinion the first appellate Court may interfere with<\/p>\n<p>finding of the trial Court on a question of fact.<\/p>\n<p>            Learned    counsel   appearing    for   the   respondent<\/p>\n<p>plaintiff supported the concurrent finding of fact recorded by the<\/p>\n<p>trial court as well as by the first appellate court and submits that<\/p>\n<p>this appeal do not involve any substantial question of law.<\/p>\n<p>            On careful perusal of the pleadings of the parties as<\/p>\n<p>also the evidence led by the parties and the judgment and<\/p>\n<p>decree of the trial court as well as of the first appellate court, in<\/p>\n<p>my view, the finding of facts recorded by the Court of fact i.e.<\/p>\n<p>the trial court as also the first appellate court on the issue No.1<\/p>\n<p>is concurrent finding of fact based on sound and proper<\/p>\n<p>appreciation of the evidence. Issue No.1 relates to as to whether<\/p>\n<p>the defendant tenant Prakash S\/o Vasudev has neither tendered<\/p>\n<p>nor paid the rent for the period from January 2000 to December<\/p>\n<p>2000 for 12 months and thus committed default in payment of<\/p>\n<p>monthly rent for the continuous period of 12 months. So far as<\/p>\n<p>issue No.2 is concerned, the issue No.2 relates to otherwise<\/p>\n<p>parting with the possession of first floor of the rented premises<\/p>\n<p>in favour of the defendant appellant No.1 Ramchandra @ Sriram.<\/p>\n<p>Though the issue was decided by the trial court in favour of the<\/p>\n<p>defendant Sriram but the first appellate court on sound and<\/p>\n<p>proper reappreciation of the evidence came to the conclusion<\/p>\n<p>that the original tenant was Shri Vasudev and on his death his<\/p>\n<p>son Prakash became the tenant as has been established from the<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                              10<\/span><br \/>\n                                             SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>evidence on record and the tenant Prakash has gone to Dubai<\/p>\n<p>and parted with the possession of the suit premises on the first<\/p>\n<p>floor of the rented premises to the appellant defendant No.1<\/p>\n<p>Ramchandra @ Sriram without the consent of respondent<\/p>\n<p>plaintiff. So far as finding on issue No.3 is concerned, the issue<\/p>\n<p>relates as to whether the ground floor of the rented premises<\/p>\n<p>has been sub-letted to the appellant defendant No.2 Vijay Kumar<\/p>\n<p>@ Vijay or otherwise parted with possession without consent of<\/p>\n<p>the respondent plaintiff and both the courts below concurrently<\/p>\n<p>found that Prakash defendant No.1 in the suit who was legal<\/p>\n<p>representative of original tenant Vasudev and became tenant on<\/p>\n<p>the death of Vasudev has sub-letted and parted with the<\/p>\n<p>possession of the ground floor of the rented premises without<\/p>\n<p>the consent of respondent plaintiff. The respondent plaintiff filed<\/p>\n<p>the suit against tenant Prakash defendant No.1 as also against<\/p>\n<p>both the appellants namely Ramchandra @ Sriram and Vijay<\/p>\n<p>Kumar @ Vijay on the ground that the defendant tenant Prakash<\/p>\n<p>has neither paid nor tendered monthly rent to the respondent<\/p>\n<p>plaintiff for a continuous period of 12 months i.e. from January<\/p>\n<p>2000 to December 2000 and that tenant Prakash has gone to<\/p>\n<p>Dubai and sub-letted the ground floor of rented premises in<\/p>\n<p>favour of appellant defendant No.2 Vijay Kumar @ Vijay or<\/p>\n<p>otherwise parted with the possession of the ground floor of the<\/p>\n<p>rented premises without the consent of respondent plaintiff and<\/p>\n<p>tenant defendant Prakash otherwise parted with the possession<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                               11<\/span><br \/>\n                                              SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>of the first floor of the rented premises in favour of the appellant<\/p>\n<p>No.1 defendant Ramchandra @ Sriram. The pleadings and<\/p>\n<p>evidence produced by the respondent plaintiff is consistent. The<\/p>\n<p>tenant defendant Prakash even after service of notice failed to<\/p>\n<p>appear and contest the suit and remained ex-parte and ex-parte<\/p>\n<p>proceedings   were   taken   against   him,   even   the   appellant<\/p>\n<p>defendants also did not produce him as a witness in evidence. In<\/p>\n<p>the written statement filed by appellants defendants they came<\/p>\n<p>with a case that the rented premises subject matter of the suit<\/p>\n<p>was taken on rent by Vasudev brother of the defendant No.2<\/p>\n<p>Sriram. The original tenant Vasudev said to be expired in the<\/p>\n<p>year 1981 and thereafter his son Prakash continued to be<\/p>\n<p>tenant. So far as the appellant No.2 Vijay Kumar @ Vijay, the<\/p>\n<p>defendant No.3 in the suit came with a plea that he has family<\/p>\n<p>relation with the original tenant Vasudev and has been residing<\/p>\n<p>in the rented premises subject matter of the suit with the<\/p>\n<p>consent of original tenant. At any rate, it is not the case of the<\/p>\n<p>appellant defendant No.2 Vijay Kumar that he has been residing<\/p>\n<p>in the rented premises at ground floor with the consent of the<\/p>\n<p>respondent plaintiff landlord. Thus, it is admitted position that<\/p>\n<p>the possession of part of rented premises i.e. ground floor has<\/p>\n<p>been otherwise parted with in favour of Vijay Kumar by the<\/p>\n<p>tenant without consent of the plaintiff landlord. Thus, there is<\/p>\n<p>concurrent finding of fact so far as parting with the possession of<\/p>\n<p>part of rented premises subject matter of the suit without the<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                                     12<\/span><br \/>\n                                                    SBCSA No. 252\/2008<\/p>\n<p>     consent of the respondent landlord.         In the instant case, the<\/p>\n<p>     respondent plaintiff landlord has discharged the initial onus to<\/p>\n<p>     prove that the first floor of the rented premises has been<\/p>\n<p>     subletted or otherwise parted with the possession in favour of<\/p>\n<p>     defendant    No.2   who    is   appellant    No.1    herein   namely<\/p>\n<p>     Ramchandra @ Sriram and ground floor in favour of appellant<\/p>\n<p>     No.2 Vijay Kumar @ Vijay original defendant No.3 without the<\/p>\n<p>     consent of respondent landlord. Even the appellants defendants<\/p>\n<p>     admitted this fact that the defendant No.3 Vijay Kumar @ Vijay<\/p>\n<p>     has been residing in the rented premises subject matter of the<\/p>\n<p>     suit in exclusive possession.      The respondent plaintiff has<\/p>\n<p>     succeeded to prove the issue of sub-letting and otherwise<\/p>\n<p>     parting with the possession of the rented premises as also<\/p>\n<p>     default in payment of rent.      In this view of the matter, the<\/p>\n<p>     decision relied on by learned counsel for the appellants turn on<\/p>\n<p>     their own facts and are of no help to them. On close scrutiny of<\/p>\n<p>     the judgment and decree of the trial court as well as of the first<\/p>\n<p>     appellate court, in my view, this appeal does not involve any<\/p>\n<p>     substantial question of law and therefore, it is liable to be<\/p>\n<p>     dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<p>                  Consequently, I do not find any merit in the instant<\/p>\n<p>     second appeal and therefore, it is dismissed. Interim order<\/p>\n<p>     stands vacated and stay petition also stands dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>                                                         (H.R.PANWAR), J.\n<\/p>\n<p>rp\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan High Court &#8211; Jodhpur Ram Chandra @ Shri Ram &amp; Anr vs Bal Kishan &amp; Ors on 22 October, 2009 1 SBCSA No. 252\/2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JODHPUR JUDGMENT S.B. Civil Second Appeal No. 252\/08 Ramchandra @ Sriram &amp; Anr. Vs. Balkishan &amp; Ors. 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