Mohinder Singh And Ors. vs Raghu Nath on 4 February, 2002
The brief facts of the decision rendered by the Full Bench in the case of State of Haryana and Ors. v. Vinod Kumar (supra) reveal that the order of the Collector was challenged therein on the ground that inspite of the fact notice was served upon them by the Collector before declaration of surplus area and the tenant's permissible area and that the land measuring 432 bighas 14 biswas out of the total holdings was banjar quadim, banjar jadid and ghair mumkin and as such being not "land" could not be counted towards the total holdings of the land-owners. It is on the facts as stated above that it was held that an order passed by the Tribunal of special jurisdiction in violation of provisions of statute or principles of natural justice, the same would be nullity and thus the civil Court would have jurisdiction to try the suit. There can be no dispute that if the Tribunal of a limited jurisdiction may pass order which the provisions of the statute may not permit, the civil Court will always have jurisdiction to try the suit as in that case the Court of limited jurisdiction proceeds to decide the matter for which it has no jurisdiction and such an order is always amenable to the jurisdiction of Civil Court. The order that might have been passed without issuing notice whatsoever is a nullity which too can be challenged before the civil Court. In the present case, however, the plaintiff was heard in the matter. It is not the case of violation of principles of natural justice. The mere fact that no reasons have been recorded in the order, in considered view of this Court, would not be enough to challenge it in a civil Court, if such an order cannot be challenged in view of the bar created by the special statute. The jurisdiction of the civil Court was clearly barred to interfere with order Ex. P1 and, therefore the suit ought to have been dismissed.