Tripura high Court: The present appeal under Section of the (‘the LA Act’) was preferred challenging the order dated 25-01-2024 along with other orders passed by L.A. Judge, Sepahijala District, Bishalgarh. Biswajit Palit, J., opined that there was no scope to prefer any appeal under Section of the , against any order specifically the order dated 25-01-2024 by the appellant as the appeal might only be preferred against the judgment/award not against any particular order/orders. The Court dismissed the appeal being devoid of merit as the same was not maintainable under Section of .
Background
Appellant submitted that in the original case, they were not made a party, so, they were totally in dark about the passing of award but during the course of execution proceeding, the matter came to their knowledge and accordingly, they sought redress before the High Court and by order dated 22-12-2023, the High Court gave an opportunity to the appellant to submit reply in the execution proceeding and accordingly, the appellant filed objection before the Executing Court but the Executing Court did not consider the same and by order dated 25-01-2024 disallowed the objection of the appellant and thus, the appellant preferred the present appeal, challenging the Executing Court’s order.
Respondents submitted that the appellant before the Executing Court appeared and sought time to pay the decretal amount within a period of two months which was allowed by the Executing Court but thereafter without making any payment the appellant sought redress before the High Court and the High Court allowed the appellant to file objection before the Executing Court and the Executing Court disposed of the said objection by order dated 25-01-2024. Respondents thus challenged the maintainability of the appeal before the High Court under Section of and submitted that there was no scope to prefer any appeal challenging the order passed by the Executing Court and as such, the appeal was liable to be rejected without any merit as the same was barred by law.
Analysis, Law, and Decision
The Court noted that by order dated 08-06-2023, the name of the PWD, NH Division was deleted from the execution case in view of the provision provided under Order 1 Rule X(2) of CPC and the name of the appellant was inserted as the Judgment Debtor. The appellant sought time to make the payment within a period of two months which was also allowed by the Executing Court, but thereafter on 08-08-2023, another petition was made by the appellant before the Executing Court to strike out their name from the execution case as in the original case and that petition was disallowed by the Executing Court on the ground that on the prayer of the appellant, the name of the appellant was inserted in the execution proceeding. After that, the appellant sought redress before the High Court and the High Court by order dated 22-12-2023 disposed of the petition.
Thereafter, the Court noted that in pursuance of the direction of the High Court, the Judgment debtor, i.e., the appellant on 25-01-2024 filed one objection before the Executing Court stating to delete their name from the execution proceeding and again to insert the name of the Executive Engineer PWD, NH Division as Judgment debtor in place of the appellant but the Executing Court disposed of the said objection on the ground that the matter was already decided by order dated 08-08-2023. The same was challenged before the High Court and the High Court by order dated 22-12-2023 upheld the order of the Executing Court as there was no scope to reopen the matter.
The Court referred to Section of the and opined that there was no scope to prefer any appeal against any order specifically the order dated 25-01-2024 by the appellant as the appeal might only be preferred against the judgment/award not against any particular order/orders. The Court held that since against the order of any execution proceeding, there was no scope to prefer any appeal, thus, it did not find any scope to entertain the present appeal preferred by the appellant before the High Court invoking Section of .
The Court dismissed the appeal being devoid of merit as the same was not maintainable under Section of . The Court stated that the Executing Court shall proceed to execute the award passed by the L.A. Judge at the earliest.
[Union of India v. Anil Plantation (P) Ltd., L.A. App. No. 33 of 2024, decided on 24-06-2024]
Advocates who appeared in this case :
For the Appellant: CGC B. Majumder
For the Respondents: Senior Advocate D. K. Biswas; Advocate D.S. Kunwar
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