Prabhakar Nene (Dead) Through Legal ... vs Shree Nagpur Geeta Mandir Trust on 20 October, 2004
"........Therefore, when the first Appellate Court did not find the necessity to allow the application, we fail to understand as to how the High Court could, in exercise of its power under Section 115 C.P.C., have interfered with such an order, particularly when the whole appeal is not before the Court. It is only in the circumstances when the Appellate Court requires such evidence to pronounce the judgment the necessity to adduce additional evidence would arise and not in any other circumstances. When the first Appellate Court passed the order on the application filed under Order 41, Rule 27 C.P.C., the whole appeal was before it and if the first Appellate Court is satisfied that additional evidence was not required, we fail to understand as to how the High Court could interfere with such an order under Section 115 C.P.C. In this regard, we may notice the decision of this Court in Gurdev Singh v. Mehgna Ram in which the scope of exercise of power under Section 115 C.P.C. on an order passed in an application filed under Order 41, Rule 27 C.P.C. was considered. When this decision was cited before the High Court, the same was brushed aside by stating that the principle stated therein is not applicable to the facts of this case. We do not think so. The High Court ought not to have interfered with such an order."