Union Of India vs Shamsher Singh & Anr on 12 July, 2023
Parmeshwar Shau, ILR 56 Cal 61, and other
cases, the Nagpur High Court in Khwaja Allawali
v. Kesharimal, ILR (1947) Nagpur 176, and the
Punjab High Court in Mela Ram v. Dharam
Chand Amrit Lal, ILR (1958) Punjab 407 , that it
was not an application for execution. We have
gone through the judgments carefully and we
have derived great assistance from them. If we
are not dealing with each of the cases
specifically, it is only because we have practically
dealt with all the reasons given by the learned
Judges in support of their respective views. We
realise that the opposite construction far which
the appellant contended is also a possible one;
but it ignores the history of the legislation and the
anomalies that it introduces. On a procedural
matter pertaining to execution when a section
yields to two conflicting constructions, the court
shall adopt a construction which maintains rather
than disturbs the equilibrium in the field of
execution. The historical background of Section
144 of the Civil Procedure Code, the acceptance
of the legal position that an application for
restitution is one for execution of a decree by a
number of High Courts, the inevitable adoption of
the said legal position by innumerable successful
appellants within the jurisdiction of the said High
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Courts, the possible deleterious impact of a
contrary view on such appellants, while there will
be no such effect on similar appellants within the
jurisdiction of the High Courts which have taken a
contrary view, also persuade its to accept the
construction that the application for restitution is
one for execution of a decree. We, therefore hold
on a fair construction of the provisions of Section
144 of the Civil Procedure Code that an
application for restitution is an application for
execution of a decree."