debtor, viz., Mohani Devi and Madanlal were also designed
on some other pretexts to stall the execution proceedings
and these applications/objections also proved to be abortive
and the learned court below rejected them. The objections
submitted at the behest of the appellants purportedly under
Order 21 Rule 97 CPC are therefore nothing but a device to
prolong the execution proceedings, more particularly when
the appellants have not placed on record any material
whatsoever for holding any sort of enquiry. My this view is
clearly fortified from a pronouncement of this Court in case
of Temple of Thakur Shri Mathuradassji Chhota
Bhandar Vs. Shri Kanhaiyalal & Ors. [2008 (3) WLC
534]. The Court in the case mentioned to supra has
observed as under:
(15 of 25) [CW-12254/2019]
Satyapal, (1977) 4 SCC 467 , in which it was
categorically laid down that if on a meaningful reading
of the plaint, it manifestly appears to be vexatious
and meritless, in the sense of not disclosing a clear
right to sue, the Trial Court should exercise its power
under Order 7, Rule 11 of CPC taking care to see that
the ground mentioned therein is fulfilled, since bogus
litigation ought to be shot down at the earliest stage.
This Court in case of Temple of Thakur Shri
Mathuradassji, Chhota Bhandar v. Shri Kanhaiyalal &
Ors., 2008(2) RLW 1390 has held to the effect that if
the suit is filed by abusing the process of the Court
and cannot be dismissed under Order 7, Rule 11 of
CPC, then the Court is not helpless and can
accordingly invoke the powers under Section 151 of
CPC and can dismiss the suit under Section 151 of
CPC.
51. The question as to whether Order VII Rule 11 exhausts the powers of
the Court to dismiss the suit/reject the plaint arose before a Single
Judge of the Rajasthan High Court in Temple of Thakur Shri
Mathuradassji v. Shri Kanhaiyalal & Ors.,73 wherein the appellant
temple and some persons acting on its behalf had filed petition, suit and
application, one after the other, in order to deny a party to the benefit of
his decree. The case pertained to land, wherein the owner sought to get
it vacated from the tenant/school, but the Temple and its associates
initially filed a PIL, then a suit and ultimately an application under
Order 21 Rule 97 of the Code to avoid the land from getting vacated
even after a compromise had been effected between the owner and the
tenant. In this background, the Trial Court had dismissed the suit after
holding the same as an abuse of the process of law. Similar arguments
were urged in respect of the limitations on the power of the Court to
dismiss a suit qua the power in Order VII Rule 11; the Single Judge
rejected the arguments and observed as follows:
In view of the ratio as laid down in the above mentioned
judgments and in view of overall facts of the case, this Court is of
the considered opinion that reliance of the learned Court below on
the orders/judgments passed by the revenue court cannot be
termed to be unwanted for. The same was definitely in purview of
jurisdiction of the Court under Order VII Rule 11 coupled with
Section 151 CPC.