Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, Section 21, 22E -- Award of Lok Adalat - Challenge as to - Award may be executed as a decree, but its validity cannot be reopened through an ordinary civil suit or by treating some other civil proceeding as a vehicle for setting it aside - Only recognized avenue of challenge is the constitutional jurisdiction of High Court, which is..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 21, Rule 97, 99, 101, Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, Section 21, 22E -- Execution - Award of Lok Adalat - Executing Court can address questions which arise incidentally in the course of working out execution, such as whether and to what extent decree can be enforced against a particular person in possession and in what manner -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 21, Rule 15 -- Execution - Joint decree holders - Any one of several joint decree-holders may apply for execution of whole decree for benefit of all decree holders including survivors and legal representatives of a deceased decree holder, unless decree itself contains any provisions to the contrary...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 21, Rule 15 -- Execution - Joint decree holders - Law as to: (i) Provisions of O.21.R.15 CPC apply to all cases where a decree has been passed in favour of more persons than one as joint decree holders; (ii) If decree itself indicates that, though a number of persons figure as decree holders, their interests are clearly defined as to..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 23, Rule 1 -- Partial abandonment of claim allowed without granting any leave to file a fresh suit - Merely because an issue of Court fees was framed that in itself would not be considered as a legal impediment in allowing said application - Application rightly allowed...........
Rent and Eviction -- Fixation of rent - Challenge as to - Lessee challenged the fixation of fair rent but did not seek a stay of its operation before appellate or revisional fora - Mere filing of an appeal does not operate as a stay of decree/order under appeal is the statutory ordainment in O.41.R.5 CPC - Payments were made belatedly and only after protracted litigation..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Prima facie allegations of harassment and demand of dowry are made out - However, despite that High Court quashed FIR against respondents primarily on the ground that earlier two complaints that were filed by appellant did..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 173 -- A person accused in FIR but removed from list of accused during course of investigation - Police to issue notice to defacto complainant or their legal heirs whenever a person named as an accused in FIR is removed from the list of accused during course of an investigation...........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138 -- Dishonour of cheque - Acquittal subject to payment of costs to Legal Services Authority - When complainant does not want any further amount and appellant has expressed his inability to comply with the same, direction imposing costs on appellant to be paid to Legal Services Authority cannot be sustained in the eye of law...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11, Court Fees Act, 1870, Section 7 -- Rejection of plaint - Deficient Court fee - Plea that land sold exceeded what was agreed or that consideration was not paid are questions of fact, to be adjudicated in trial proceedings after proper pleadings and evidence - Those contentions do not affect legal requirement of affixing proper..........
