Even otherwise, the court does not find any substance with regard to the half-hearted challenge to the valuation of claim made and, in any case, irrespective of valuation of the claim, the suit would lie before the District Judge as per the provisions contained under Section 134 of the Trademarks Act, 1999 and would not change the forum, hence, the judgment in the case of Arun Kumar Tiwari (supra) does not help the appellants.
The defendant admitted the order dated 06.10.2012 passed by Sh.
Samar Vishal, in suit bearing no. 37/09, declaring possession of the
defendant in the suit property. The said order has been exhibited as Ex.
PW1/DX1. Even, the order dated 20.04.2011 of the Court of Sh. Vikram,
the then Ld. CJ, Delhi, allowing the defendant Sh. Santosh Tiwari to
renovate the suit property on the basis of possession of the defendant
has been exhibited as Ex. PW1/DX4. Defendant also proved the joint
statement of the plaintiff and her husband dated 02.01.2012 given by
them in suit bearing no. 37/09 titled as "Santosh Tiwari Vs. Smt. Sharda
& Ors." in the Court of Sh. Vikram, the then Ld. CJ, Delhi, whereby
admitting possession of the defendant in the suit property. The said joint
statement is Ex. PW1/DXC, which is part of Ex. DW8/2. Thus, from the
previous litigation as well as documents filed by the defendant, it is clear
that it was defendant only, who had been in possession of the suit
property all along and plaintiff was never in possession of the suit
property. Had the plaintiff been in possession of the suit property at any
point of time, a single ID would have been made by the plaintiff from the
address of the suit property. However, no documentary evidence in
order to prove the possession of the plaintiff in the suit property has been
filed by the plaintiff. The plaintiff has also failed to prove that a loan was
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also taken by the defendant against some other property and not the suit
property. The plaintiff has further failed to prove the title documents, on
the basis of which she is claiming her ownership over the suit property
since none of those documents are as per law and even otherwise, they
are not registered in the office of SubRegistrar and thus, did not have
any legal validity. The plaintiff even failed to examine Oath
Commissioner or Notary Public, who had attested so called title
documents. Further, the documents relied upon by PW2, i.e., the
complaints made before police authorities are not sufficient to prove
ownership of the plaintiff over the suit property at any point of time.
Other case rejied upon by the parties' counsel is reported in [2006 (24) LCD 920 :2006 (1) ARC 717] Arun Kumar Tiwari vs. Smt. Deepa Sharma and others. In the case of Deepa Sharma, a declaratory decree was sought by the plaintiff with the prayer that the sale deed executed by defendant no. 1 in favour of defendant no. 5 by declared as illegal, ineffective and inoperative. In such circumstances, the division bench held that where the relief of injunction is consequential to the relief of declaration, ad valorem court fee has to be paid on entire valuation of suit property and Article 17 of Schedule 2 of the Court Fees Act shall not be applicable.
The dispute is covered by a Division Bench judgement of this Court in the
case of Arun Kumar Tiwari vs. Smt. Deepa Sharma & others,
[2006(100) RD 427], wherein it has been held that whenever challenge is
made to the jurisdiction of the court as well as to the valuation of the suit
and sufficiency of the court fee or to the maintainability of the suit, the
proper procedure for the court is to first decide these issues and then to
decide the injunction application and other matters.
In view of above law laid down by this Court, no illegality has been
committed by the court below in proceeding to decide the issues with
respect to the valuation of the suit and court fees before deciding the
temporary injunction application as such the impugned orders do not
warrant any interference.
The counsel for the applicants relied upon a judgement of this Court in the Case of Arun Kumar Tiwari vs. Smt. Deepa Sharma, 2006 (24) LCD 920 wherein this Court had observed that when the court fees has not been paid, the question of court fees should be decided along with injunction application. The said judgement has no relevance with the facts pleaded in the present application. It is well settled that the injunction cannot be kept pending as has been the facts in the present case for a period of more than two years.
In the meanwhile, there shall be stay of further
proceedings in HMA No.877 of 2015 titled “Arun Rathore
Vs. Deepa” pending before the Court of Family Judge No.1,
Jaipur Mahanagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan.