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IN THE COURT OF THE I ADDITIONAL SENIOR CIVIL JUDGE
RANGA REDDY DISTRICT AT L.B.NAGAR
Present: Smt. I. Sailaja Devi, I Additional Senior Civil Judge Ranga Reddy District
Wednesday This the 29th day of April, 2015
O.S. No.1662 / 2006
BETWEEN:-
1. M.A.A. Siddique, S/o M.K.Siddique (died per LRs)
2. Smt. Nazia Siddiqua,
3. Asma Siddiqua,
4. Afshan Siddiqua,
5. Asra Siddiqua,
6. Mohd. Altaf Ahmed Siddique,
7. Mohd. Ausaf Ahmed Siddique …Plaintiffs (The plaintiffs 2 to 7 are the LRs of the plaintiff brought on record as per the Orders in IA No. 786 / 2014 dt: 10/9/2014)
And
1. Jalal Ahmed,
2. Bakhtiar Nawab,
3. M. Mossa,
4. Md. Yousuf Shareef, … Defendants
This suit is coming before me for final hearing before me in the presence of Sri V. Thrimurthulu, counsel for the Plaintiff and of Sri D. Mohan Reddy, counsel for the defendant No. 4 and the the defendants 1 to 3 remained exparte and upon perusal of the material record record and the matter having stood over for consideration till this day, this court delivered the following:
J U D G M E N T
01.This is a suit filed by the plaintiff for perpetual injunction over the suit schedule property against the defendants and also to award costs of the suit.
The contention of the plaintiff is that, the 1st plaintiff herein is the absolute owner and possessor of the suit schedule property by virtue of agreement of sale dt: 5/2/1982 from one B. Janaki Ram, after purchasing the suit scheudle property , the 1st plaintiff developed and constructed boundary wall and three rooms and kept in strict watch and ward. Since the date of purchase , the 1st 2 plaintiff was in physical possession and enjoyment of the suit schedule property as full fledged owner. The 1st plaintiff was also paying property tax, electricity charges regularly. The property got assessed in the name of the 1st plaintiff in the year 1993. The defendants are not at all having any right or title over the suit schedule property, but engaged some hired goondas and trying to encroach the suit schedule property , the defendants with malafide intention harassing and blackmailing the plaintiffs. The defendants are nothing to do with the suit schedule property. On the other hand, they are not coming forward to show with dire consequences and openly said that they can take away the lives if any one curtail their acts. Hence the suit.
02.On the other hand, the 4th defendant filed the written statement stating that, the plaint are false, baseless and incorrect and this defendant denies the same.
Neither the plaintiff is the absolute owner and possessor by virtue of agreement of sale dt: 5/2/1982 executed by one B. Janakiram inrpesect of the suit schedule property.
The plaintiff is neither owner nor having any title and possession inrespect of suit schedule property as such the question of paying any property tax, electricity charges and got property assessed in the name of the plaintiff in the year 1993 is nothing but only to grab the suit schedule land and when the vendor of plaintiff himself has no title and possession the question of plaintiff becoming the owner and possessor by virtue of alleged agreement of sale dt: 5/2/1982 even without conveying title deed of sale is utterly false and incorrect and this defendant deny the same. The plaintiff has no title and possession and in case if any injunction order is granted by this Court under the guise of the plaintiff may encroach and occupy the suit schedule property which are allotted to the members of Navabharat Weaker Section Cooperative Housing Society .
03.The plaint relating to cause of action which arose in the year 1982 3 when the vendor of plaintiff B. Janakiram executed agreement in favour of plaintiff in the year 1982 and plaintiff developed property by paying property tax and electricity consumption charges etc., in the month of May, 2006 and also on 10/7/2006 without disclosing any reason of not getting the registered sale deed in favour of the plaintiff the allegations that the defendant along with others came to suit schedule property and tried to demolish partly the suit schedule property is not correct. Hence prayed the Court to dismiss the suit with costs.
Basing on the above pleadings, the following issues are framed:- (I) Whether the plaintiff is entitled for the title and possession over the suit schedule property ?
(ii)Whether the plaintiff is entitled for permanent injunction ?
(iii) 0To what relief?
Heard and perused the record
ISSUES:-
This is a suit filed by the plaintiff for perpetual injunction against the defendants. During the pendency of the suit, the plaintiff died and his LRs are added as plaintiffs 2 to 7 as legal heirs , as per the Orders in IA No. 786 / 2014 dt:
10/9/2014.
04.During the life time of the plaintiff, he was examined as PW1, who stated in his evidence that, the defendants have nothing to do with suit schedule property, he repeatedly demanded them to produce their title deeds if any in respect of the suit schedule property. But they never shown any title, but they are threatening with dire consequences and giving life threats to him and his family members. In the month of July, ie., 10/7/2006 at about 10-00 AM attacked and tried to encroach the property, but on the timely intervention of the neighbours the defendants could not succeeded in their illegal acts. He was very much apprehended with the nefarious activities of the defendants. Hence the suit. In support of his case, he filed Ex.A1 to Ex.A10 documents.
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He also got examined PW2, who is the same villager who stated in his evidence that, the plaintiff purchased the suit schedule property in the year 1982 from one B. Janakiram, after purchasing the said suit schedule property, he developed and constructed boundary wall and three rooms and kept him as a watch man to safeguard the said property, since the date of purchase, the plaintiff is in actual physical possession and enjoyment of the suit schedule property. The plaintiff also paying property tax regularly. The defendants are not concerned with the suit property and they have no right or title over the suit schedule property, but engaged some hired gundas and tried to encroach the suit schedule property.
Hence prayed the Court to decree the suit with costs.
05.On the other hand, the defendants 1 to 3 were set exparte, the 4th defendant contested the suit, he was examined as DW1 who stated in his evidence that, the plaintiff is neither owner nor having any title and possession inrespect of the suit schedule property as such the question of issue of demand notice, and paying any property tax, electricity charges and got property assessed in the name of the plaintiff in the year 1993 is nothing but created and invented for the purpose of illegal claim only to grab the valuable property under the guise of forged, created and bogus documents and receipts for the purpose of filing the suit and also to grab the suit schedule land and when the vendor of plaintiff himself has no title and possession, the question of plaintiff becoming the owner and possessor by virtue of alleged agreement of sale dt: 5/2/1982 does not arise and even without conveying deed of sale the plaintiff could not occrue any title to the suit schedule property.
It is further avvered in his affidavit that, the 2nd defendant along with his family members are the original owners and land holders and possessor of entire land bearing Sy.No.63 measuring Ac. 78-37 gts., situated at Guttala Begumpet (V),
Serilingampally (M), R.R. District owned and possessed by one Smt. S.D. Costa, who sold the land to late Nawab Sultan Ul-mulk Bahadur paternal grand father of 5
Smt. Latifunnisa Begum and others, and since then the legal heirs of late Nawab
Sultan Ul-mulk Bahadur was exclusive owners and possessors of entire property.
Smt. Latifunnisa Begum claiming her share of property through her father late
Nawab Nawaj Jung and gifted the entire land in SY.No.63 measuring Ac. 78-37 gts., in favour of Latifunnisa Begum under registered gift deed dt: 14/10/1969 and delivered possession to her.
06.Out of the said land, Smt. Latifunnisa Begum executed gift deed to an extent of Ac. 11-37 gts., infavour of Smt. Iffat Ali Khan under registered Gift deed
dt: 31/3/1971 and delivered possession to her. And in turn the said Smt. Iffat Ali
Khan who became absolute owner and possessor by virtue of said gift deed entered into an agreement of sale infavour of him on 5/4/1982 and received total sale consideration and delivered physical possession of above said land in favour of
Navabharat Weaker section cooperative Housing society, represented by him as
Chairperson , M. Y. Shareef / D4 herein and in turn the said society developed the land and divided the land into residential house plots and allotted to the members of the society and the society some of them have constructed houses and some of them have not constructed any structures and all the members are in peaceful possession of the said land and very few of them raised structures, and taking undue advantage of some of the vacant plots in the land.
The plaint relating to the valuation of the suit schedule property is meager valuation as shown Rs.1,50,000/- and the Court fee of Rs.3926/- paid which is insufficient since the suit schedule property is valued more than Rs.2 crores as such the plaintiff grossly undervalued the suit and paid insufficient court fee, on this ground alone the suit filed by the plaintiff is liable to be dismissed.
07.The 2nd defendant is examined as DW2 who stated in his evidence that, he along with his family members are the land holders and possessors of entire land bearing SY.No.63 admeasuring Ac. 78-37 gts., situated at Guttala Begumpet 6 (V), Serilingampally (M), R.R. District. Originally the entire land was owned and possessed by Smt. S.D. Costa who sold the land to late Nawab Sultan Ul mulk
Bahadur, the paternal grand father of Smt. Latifunnisa Begum & others and since then the legal heirs of late Nawab Sultan Ul mulk Bahadur were exclusive owners and possessors of entire property, Late Nawab Nazeer Nawaj Jung gifted the entire land in Sy.No.63 measuring Ac. 78-37 gts., infavour of Latifunnisa Begum under registered Gift deed dt: 14/10/1969 and delivered possession to her.
Out of the said land, Smt. Latifunnsa Begum executed Gift Deed to an extent of Ac. 11-37 gts., in favour of Smt. Iffat Yar Khan under registered Gift deed
dt: 31/3/1971 and delivered possession to her. And in turn the said Smt. Iffat Yar
Khan who became absolute owner and possessor by virtue of said Gift deed, entered into an Agreement of sale in favour of the 4th defendant on 5/4/1982 and delivered physical possession of above said land infavour of Navabharat Weaker Section
Cooperative Housing Society by registered No.TBC 409 and in turn the said society converted the land into a Residential House plots in respect of land bearing
Sy.No.63 to an extent of Ac. 11-37 gts., situated at Guttala Begumpet (V),
Serilingampally (M), R.R. District represented by defendant No.4 as the
Chairperson. He also reiterated the same facts of the DW1. Hence prayed the
Court to dismiss the suit filed by the plaintiff with costs. In support of their case,
Ex.B1 to Ex.B9 documents are marked.
08.The case of the plaintiff is that, he is the absolute owner and possessor of the suit schedule property by virtue of an Agreement of sale dt: 5/2/1982
U/Ex.A1 purchased from one Jankiram. The said Jankiram purchased the land of
Ac. 6-0 gts., from one P. Venkaiah , the said P. Venkaiah was gifted the land of Ac.
6-0 gts., of land from one Latifunnisa Begum. After purchasing the schedule property by the 1st plaintiff , he developed and constructed the boundary wall and also constructed three rooms and since then , he has been in peaceful possession and 7 enjoyment of the same and the property was also assessed in the year 1993 U/Ex.A2
dt: 7/9/1993 infavour of the 1st plaintiff and the H.No., was also given as H.No.1-
98/71, Ex.A3 –Tax receipt dt: 8/8/95 inrespect of the same H.No., infavour of the plaintiff. Ex.A4-another Tax receipt dt: 29/3/2006 for the year 1997-98 to 2005- 2006. Ex.A6 & Ex.A7 are the Tax receipts dt: 12/7/1985 stands in the name of the plaintiff’s vendor. The House No., was shown as H.No.1-65/9, 1-65/10.
For that the learned counsel for the defendant put a question on the
PW1 that, the H.No.is different in the said two receipts and the area was also shown as Madhapur, but the schedule property is situated at Gutla Begumpet, for that, during the course of cross examination of PW1 stated that, the Gutla Begumpet village is part and parcel of Madhapur and the H.No.1-65/9 and H.No.1-65/10 were given by the Panchayat , subsequently the Municipality gave the No., as H.No.1- 98/71, so both the H.Nos., belongs to the schedule property only. To disprove the plaintiff contention , the defendant did not adduce any documents inrespect of different H.Nos., but on the other hand, the 4th defendant disputed the ownership of the plaintiff and also possession of the plaintiff, his contention is that, originally the land bearing Sy.No.63 admeasuring Ac. 78 -37 gts., situated at Gutla Begumpeta (V), Serilingampally (M), R.R. District owned possessed by Smt. S.D Costa who sold the land to late Nawab Sultan Ul-mulk Bahadur paternal grand father of Smt.
Latifunnisa Begum and others, and since then the legal heirs of late Nawab Sultan
Ul-mulk Bahadur was exclusive owners and possessors of entire property. Smt.
Latifunnisa Begum claiming her share of property through her father late Nawab
Nawaj Jung and gifted the entire land in SY.No.63 measuring Ac. 78-37 gts., in favour of Latifunnisa Begum under registered gift deed dt: 14/10/1969 and delivered possession to her.
09.Out of the said land, Smt. Latrifunnisa Begum executed Gift deed to an extent of Ac. 11-37 gts., infavour of Smt. Ifath Yar Khan under registered Gift 8 deed dt: 31/3/1971 –Ex.B2 and delivered the possession to her and in turn Smt.
Ifath Yar Khan who became the absolute owner and possessor by virtue of the said
Gift deed entered into an agreement of sale infaovur of him on 5/4/1982 and received total sale consideration and delivered the physical possession of the above said land infavour Navabharat Weaker Section Cooperative Housing Society represented by him as Chairperson and in turn the said society developed the land and divided into residential house plots and allotted to the members of the society and some of the society members constructed houses and some of them have not constructed any structures and all the members are in peaceful possession of the said land, some of them raised the structures taking advantage of some of the vacant plots in the said land , the plaintiff herein mis-represented the facts and filed the false suit by making false cause of action. If really Ifath Yar Khan executed agreement of sale infavour of the 4th defendant on 5/4/1982, but the said agreement of sale was not filed by the defendant in this Court.
For that the defendant did not offer any explanation to support the defendants case, he also got examined DW2 / D2 , actually the 2nd defendant was set exparte in the main suit, it seems that, the defendants 1 to 3 colluded with 4th defendant , for that only they were set exparte. But to support the contention of the 4th defendant, the 2nd defendant is examined as DW2 who is none other then the brother of Ifath Yar Khan and son of Latifunnisa Begum.
10.The DW2 also disputed the ownership , possession by the plaintiff in the schedule property, both their contention is that, the plaintiff’s vendor has no total or possession over the property, the question of interference by the defendants does not arise The name of the plaintiff ‘s vendor is no where mentioned in the
Revenue records. The DW1 filed Ex.B3 –CC of B Memorandum for the year 1988-1989. In the said document, the name of Venkaiah is reflected to an extent of
Ac. 4-02 gts., the said Venkaiah is none other than the vendor of the Janikaram.
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The said Janakiram is vendor of the plaintiff.
The plaintiff contended that, the Latifunnisa Begum , during her life time executed one Memoradum of a Gift on 30/9/1967, as per the said Gift of
Memorandum , the Latifunnisa Begum executed on 30/9/1967 infavour of
Venkaiah, who was being the washer man to her by that time for his services, she executed the land of Ac. 6-0 gts., out of Ac. 78 – 37 gts., infavour of the Venkaiah.
The said document was in URDU, but the 2nd defendasnt disputed the signature of his mother –Latifunnisa Begumpet on the said document, but if he disputed the signature of his mother, it is for the defendants to prove that the said document was not executed by Latifunnisa became infavour of the Venkaiah.
11.Apart from that, the Navabharat Weaker Section Cooperative Housing
Society filed the suit –OS No.31 / 2000 on the file of IV Addl. Sr. Civil Judge, R.R.
District for perpetual Injunction against the MRO, RDO, District Collector , R.R.
District, in the said suit, the society itself shows the Northern boundary as neighbour land in SY.No.63 (venkaiah).
If the entire land in SY.No.63 belongs to the Latifunnisa Begum, how the name of the Venkaiah is incorporated in the Revenue records? As per the
Memorandum of Gift by Latifunnisa Begum, she gifted the land of Ac. 6 -0 gts., infaovur of Venkaiah and the said Ac. 6-0 gts., of land sold to the Janakiram. So by the date of Ex.B3 –ie., in the year 1988-89 itself the name of the Venkaiah was reflected and during the course of cross examination, the DW2 also admitted that, the Northern boundary was encroached by Venkaiah to his knowledge. If actually the said Venkaiah encroached the land what prevented the 2nd defendant to take steps against Venkaiah for encroaching the land? It clearly reveals that, he know the fact that, his mother –Latifunnisa Begaum gave the land of Ac. 6-0 gts., infavour of
Venkaiah. The plaintiff claim is also that his vendor –Janakiram purchased the land from Venkaiah. So the plaintiff proves his title over the property.
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12.No doubt the plaintiff did not obtain any registered sale deed from the
Janakiram, for that he gave an explanation that, unless alienation permission obtained by the Janakiram, he cannot execute the registered deed infavour of the plaintiff.
That condition was also mentioned in Ex.A1-Agreement of sale to support his contention. The plaintiff also filed Ex.A8-notice issued by the Surpanch of Madhapur on 10/9/1981 stating that, “the plaintiff vendor by name Janakiram started construction in SY.No.63 and directed him not to make any further construction”. It itself reveals by the date of 10/9/1981 , the plaintiff’s vendor by name Janakiram was in possession of the schedule property. So the plaintiff proved the possession of his vendor , he also filed Ex.A5-Encumbrance certificate from 1/1/1983 to 26/12/2005. The said document also reflects no Encumbrance certificate over the suit schedule property.
13.Inrespect of the possession, the plaintiff filed Ex.A2 – Property tax assessment letter , Ex.A3 –Property Tax receipt by the year 1995, Ex.A4 – Tax receipt, Ex.A6 & Ex.A7 –Tax receipts which stands in the name of the plaintiff’s vendor , Ex.A9 & Ex.A10 are Tax receipts reflects the name of the plaintiff. So the plaintiff proved his possession over the property.
Not only that, the photographs filed by the defendant marked as
Ex.B9, in one of the photograph , the H.No.1-98/71 was also reflected in the photograph and the said fact was also admitted by the DW1 in his cross examination. Apart from that, the DW1 also admitted that, Navabharat Nagar &
Navabharat Weaker Section Cooperative Housing Society are different. The plaintiff contended that, the TBC – 409 was registered in the name of Padmashalli
Seva Sangam at pattadar column but not in the name of the Navabharat Weaker
Section Cooperative Housing Society. To prove the said fact, the plaintiff did not file any document, but the defendant filed Ex.B4 –xerox copy of Bye-laws in 11 column No.1 , it was mentioned as “Bharat Weaker Cooperative Housing Society, but not as Navabharat Weaker Cooperative Housing Society”.
14.For that, the defendant gave an explanation that the word Navabharat mentioned in the Top of the bye laws, the defendant also failed to file the copy of registration of the Navabharat Weaker Sections Housing Society.
The plaintiff also disputed that, the 4th defendant is not a Chairperson of the said society and as per the Bye laws he is only Secretary , the said fact was also admitted by the 4th defendant in his cross examination. He filed Ex.B7 – proceedings of the Election of the president and Committee members of the
Navabharat Weaker Section Cooperative Housing Society , those elections are only pertaining to the year 2002-2007, but the defendant failed to file any document to show that, he is the Chairperson as on the date of execution of the alleged agreement of sale dt: 5/4/1982. Original agreement of sale was not filed by the defendant. So it also gives raises a doubt whether the Latifunnisa Begum executed any Agreement of sale infavour of the 4th defendant?
15.Another contention of the defendant is that, the plaintiff is relying on the agreement of sale but he did not obtain the registered sale deed and basing on the agreement of sale, the title cannot Transfer , but at the same time the defendant is also relying on the agreement and he is also did not have any registered sale deed.
In the injunction suits, the Court has to see who is in the possession of the schedule property as on the date of filing of the suit. In the above paragraphs, I have already discussed that the plaintiff proved his possession over the schedule property. If the injunction is not granted infavour of the plaintiff, the defendant will interfere with the possession of the plaintiff. It will leads to the multiplicity of the litigation.
After foregoing the above reasons, I am of the opinion that the plaintiff is entitled for the relief as claimed.
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RESULT:-
In the result, the suit is decreed with costs by way of granting perpetual injunction restraining the defendants , henchmen from interfering with the suit schedule property.
Dictated to the Personal Assistant, transcribed by her, corrected and pronounced by
me in the open Court on this the 29th day of April, 2015.
I ADDL. SENIOR CIVIL JUDGE
RANGA REDDY DISTRICT
APPENDIX OF EVIDENCE
WITNESSES EXAMINED
For Plaintiffs: For Defendants ; PW-1: M. A. A. Siddique DW-1 : M. Y. Shareef PW-2 : Syed Zameel Hussain DW-2 : Bukhtyar Khan
EXHIBITS MARKED
For Plaintiffs:
Ex.A1 : Original agreement of sale dt: 5/2/1982 Ex.A2 : Original property tax assessment dt: 7/9/1993 Ex.A3 & Ex.A4 : Original property tax receipts dt: 8/8/95 & 29/3/2006
Ex.A5 : Original Encumbrance certificate dt: 27/12/2005 Ex.A6 & Ex.A7 : Original property tax receipts dt: 12/7/1985
Ex.A8 : Original notice issued by the Gram Panchayat dt: 10/9/1981 Ex.A9 : Computerize property tax due details 2011-2012 dt: 9/7/2011 Ex.A10 : Original cash receipt dt: 31/5/2011
For Defendants:
Ex.B1 : Cc of gift deed with consideration dt: 14/10/1969 Ex.B2 : CC of Deed of gift dt: 31/3/1971 Ex.B3 : CC of “B” Memorandum for the year 1988-89
Ex.B4 : Attested copy of Byelaws of the Navabharath Cooperative Housing Society (marked subject to objection)
Ex.B5 : CC of plaint in OS No. 31/ 2000 on the file of IV ASCJ, R.R. District. Ex.B6 : CC of docket order in IA No. 69/2000 dt: 01/02/2000
Ex.B7 : Election proceedings of Navabharath Weaker Section Cooperative Housing Society Ltd., dt: 11/3/2010
Ex.B8 : Xerox copy of certificate of registration of the society dt: 1/12/81 Ex.B9 : Photographs with CDs
I ADDL. SENIOR CIVIL JUDGE
RANGA REDDY DISTRICT