Partition suit -- Plea of Benami Transaction - Defendant failed to prove that suit properties were purchased Benami - Admittedly, suit properties were purchased jointly in name of plaintiff and defendant No.1, who are brothers - Moreover, defendant No.1 failed to prove his source for mobilizing funds - Reason for buying property jointly in name of plaintiff and defendant..........
Suits Valuation Act, 1887, Section 4, 11 -- Valuation of suit - Suit for partition - Filed before Court of limited pecuniary jurisdiction - Trial Court with limited pecuniary jurisdiction can direct plaintiff to value suit as per the guidelines as it is within the jurisdiction of Civil Judge even if material would not have been brought to notice of Civil Judge to direct..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 152 -- Amendment of decree - Partition suit - Mistake as to survey number of suit property - Parties do not dispute the fact that particulars sought to be corrected is a mistake - Even there is no dispute between parties regarding identity of property sought to be partitioned - Respondents have no objection to the correction of survey..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 9 -- Counter claim after filing written statement - - Partition suit - Cause of action in respect of counter claim accrued to defendants before filing of written statements - Application for counter claim allowed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Original suit is for permanent injunction - Plea for introducing suit for separate possession by way of partition by metes and bounds would be totally separate cause of action and that would change nature of suit - Petition dismissed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Suit for permanent injunction - Amendment sought to raise plea of separate possession - Such plea for separate possession by way of partition by metes and bounds is totally a separate cause of action which will change nature of suit - Application rightly dismissed...........
Family Courts Act, 1984, Section 7 -- Jurisdiction of Court - Partition suit - Where there are other parties also entitled to get right in property apart from spouses as co-owners, then such a suit for partition of those properties, jurisdiction of Civil Court is not ousted...........
Specific Relief Act, 1963, Section 37, 38 -- Injunction - Co-owner can seek injunction against other co-sharer viz-a-viz change of nature of land - Since the property in question is joint and defendant failed to prove the family settlement as alleged by him, injunction rightly granted against defendant - Remedy if any for defendant was to seek partition...........
Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988, Section 4(1) -- Benami transaction - Suit for partition, possession and mesne profits - Maintainability of suit - Plaintiff admittedly claimed 1/3rd share of suit property purchased in the name of defendant - Registered sale deed is in the name of defendant - Suit filed in 1990 after coming into force of Benami Act - It is not..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 1, Rule 10 -- Impleadment of a party at appellate stage - Partition suit - Petitioners seeking their impleadment stating that boundaries of suit property are wrongly mentioned in the suit - However, no boundaries were disclosed in the sale deed in question - Moreover, it is difficult to believe that these revisionists did not have..........
