7. Question no.(i) is with regard to maintainability of the Civil
Revision Petition. Challenging maintainability of the Civil Revision Petition,
Mr. Bhokta, learned counsel contended that the impugned order is interim
in nature which does not finally decide the lis and therefore, the same
cannot be challenged by way of revision under Section 115 of the CPC.
Placing reliance on the decision of this Court in Sitaram @ Mahendra Ghosh
v. Sri Antaryami Mohapatra and 18 others (CRP No. 89 of 2002) and other
connected cases (supra), Mr. Bhokta submitted that the term "proceeding"
must be proceeding of an equivalent status of a suit and does not include a
proceeding arising in or out of a suit. Therefore, all the proceedings
registered as Misc. Cases on the basis of miscellaneous application, be it for
a temporary injunction, appointment of receiver, restoration of the suit,
setting aside the ex parte decree will not come within the purview of the
term "proceeding" as provided in the proviso to sub-Section (1) of Section
115 of the Code. Further, referring to the GRCO (Civil) Vol.-I Mr. Bhokta
submitted that Rule 33 provides the list of miscellaneous jurisdiction cases
in which application under Section 144 of CPC is included. Therefore, this
case is not maintainable.
OLR respectively at pages 703, 711 and 714 and also the case of Sitaram alias Mahendra Ghosh v. Sri Antaryami Mohapatra and 18 others, 2003 (II) OLR 409. Argument has been advanced in some of the revisions that the ratio laid down in the above noted citations are not consistent with the decision from the Apex Court having a superseding authority on precedent and therefore this Court should re-think on the legal issue i.e., on the question of maintainability. A Court has to function with an open mind to consider the legal consequences and position of law not only by referring to the statutes but also by adopting judicial precedents when found applicable. Thus, this Court again analyses on such legal issue.
15. Similarly, the decision of the learned Single Judge in the case of Sitaram alias Mahendra Ghosh v. Sri Antaryami Mohapatra and Ors. reported in 2003 (2) OLR 409 also is not applicable to the facts of the present case. That decision construed the provision of Section 115 of the Code on the question of revision. This Court is unable to appreciate the relevance of the said decision to the facts of the present case.
15. The residual question is regarding the maintainability of impugned order. The
law is well settled in Sitaram alias Mahendra Ghose vs. Sri Antaryami Mohapatra
and 18 others, 2003 (II) OLR-409. This Court has held that a Civil Revision at the
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instance of a litigant is maintainable on satisfaction of the following circumstances
cumulatively:
6. In order of preference the question of maintainability is needed to be considered first. The issue which the opposite party raised is no more res integra: The legal consequence of the provision under Section 115 after amendment by Act 46 of 1999 has been considered by this Court in a batch of cases vide Sitaram @ Mahendra v. Sri Antaryami Mohapatra and Ors., 96 (2003) CLT 762 : 2003 (II) OLR 409. Relating to maintainability of a Civil Revision, this Court has held that :