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Decided On: 18.07.2025 vs Sh. Charan Dass & Others
2025 Latest Caselaw 2119 HP

Citation : 2025 Latest Caselaw 2119 HP
Judgement Date : 18 July, 2025

Himachal Pradesh High Court

Decided On: 18.07.2025 vs Sh. Charan Dass & Others on 18 July, 2025

Author: Ajay Mohan Goel
Bench: Ajay Mohan Goel
                                                         2025:HHC:23381

         IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

                                    CMPMO No.181 of 2022
                                    Decided on: 18.07.2025
    Rakesh Kumar & others                                     ... Petitioners




                                                                          .
                           Versus





    Sh. Charan Dass & others                                  ... Respondents
    Coram





    Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge.
    Whether approved for reporting?1
    ____________________________________________________                                         _
    For the petitioners     :     Mr. Ashwani Kaundal, Advocate.





    For the respondents             :        Mr. Sunny Modgil, Advocate (through
                                             Video Conferencing) and Ms. Ananya,
                      r                      Advocate, respondent No.1.

                                             Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Advocate, for
                                             respondents No.2, 4, 6, 7 to 11.

                                             Respondents No.1, 13, 16, 20, 22
                                             and 27 ex parte.
                               Respondents No.3, 5, 12 and 21
                               reported to be dead.



    Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge (Oral)

A perusal of the record demonstrates that respondents

No.2 to 12 are proforma respondents. Mr. Rajesh Kumar, learned

counsel, has put in appearance on behalf of respondents No.2, 4, 6

and 7 to 11. Remaining proforma respondents are ordered to be

deleted from the array of respondents. Registry is directed to carry

out necessary corrections in the memo of parties.

2. By way of this petition, the petitioners have, inter alia,

prayed for the following relief:-

"(a) That the impugned order dated 27-11-2021 (Annexure P/9) and Local Commissioner's report (Annexure P/7) may kindly be quashed and set aside."

Whether reporters of the local papers may be allowed to see the judgment?

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3. The petitioners have prayed for setting aside order dated

27.11.2021 (Annexure P-9), which reads as under:-

"No objections sought to be filed. Let warrant of

.

possession as per the report of Local Commissioner be

issued and report for compliance be called for 30.01.2022."

The petitioners have also prayed for setting aside the report of the

Local Commissioner (Annexure P-7), against which no objections

were filed by the petitioners, as is also culled out form order dated

27.11.2021.

4. to Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that as at

the time when the demarcation was carried out by the Local

Commissioner, they had objected thereto at the spot, therefore, they

were under the bonafide impression that there was no need to file

any objection before learned Court below against the report of the

Local Commissioner. He further submits that it is a matter of record

that fraud has been played upon the petitioners and the

demarcation which has been carried out is not in terms of the

decree which was passed by the learned Court below.

5. On the other hand, learned counsel appearing for

respondent No.1/plaintiff submits that the contention of the

petitioners deserves outright rejection, for the reason that as it is

evident from order dated 27.11.2021 that despite opportunity having

been granted to the parties to file objections in the Court against the

report of the Local Commissioner, as no objections were preferred by

them, therefore, they have no locus to assail the said order by way of

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filing the present petition. He further submits that otherwise also,

when the demarcation was carried out by the Local Commissioner,

no objection was raised by the petitioners.

.

6. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well

as learned counsel for respondent No.1 and other counsel for the

represented parties, this Court is of the considered view that filing of

this petition is nothing, but an abuse of the process of law.

7. It is not in dispute that there is a decree dated

01.08.2012 in favour of respondent No.1. For the last thirteen years,

the Decree Holders are waiting for execution of the said decree. In

terms of the documents appended with this petition by the

petitioners when the case was listed before the learned Executing

Court on 31.01.2020, the following order was passed:-

"This is an application under Order 26 Rule 9 and under Order 20 Rule 18 readwith under Section 151 CPC filed for appointment of Local Commissioner with the directions

to visit the spot and to make the partition separation of

the suit property marked by letters ABCDEFGHI shown in red colour in the site plan Ext. PW-1/A forming part of

Khewat No. 819 min. Khatauni No 1250 1248 1199/458, khasra No 1323 to 1332 and 1334 as entered in Jamabandi for the year 2003-04, situated at Mohal Lalhn. Tehsil Haroli District Una, HP Application is allowed for the reasons stated therein Accordingly. Sh. Ravinder Garg, retired Naib Tehsildar, Rio Village Nangra is hereby appointed as Local Commissioner with the direction that he will visit the spot to execute the commission and submit his detailed report on 15 05 2020. His fees is assessed to be at Rs.4,000/- which shall be paid by the applicant Let

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necessary reference be made for executing the commission Application. stands disposed of. Be tagged with main file. Be listed for filing of report on above said date."

Thereafter, when the matter was again listed before the learned

.

Executing Court on 27.11.2021, it passed an order that as no

objections were sought to be filed against the report of the Local

Commissioner, therefore, let warrant of possession as per the report

of the Local Commissioner be issued and report for compliance be

called for. The order passed by the learned Executing Court on

27.11.2021 has already been quoted by me hereinabove.

8. In the light of the fact that no objections were filed

against the report of the Local Commissioner, the petitioners have no

locus to file this petition. The averments made in the petition as

were also contended by learned counsel for the petitioners that

because the petitioners had raised objections at the time of the

demarcation, therefore, they were under bonafide belief that no

written objections were required to be filed with the Court are

difficult to believe.

9. As it was a conscious decision of the petitioners not to

file objections against the report of the Local Commissioner, as is

evident from the averments made in the petition itself, they cannot

now be allowed to assail the order that was passed by learned

Executing Court on 27.11.2021.

10. Accordingly, this petition is dismissed with costs of

Rs.25,000/- to be paid by the petitioners to respondent No.1/

plaintiff. Pending miscellaneous applications, if any, also stand

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disposed of.

(Ajay Mohan Goel) Judge

.

July 18, 2025

(Rishi)

 
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