Kanai Lal Maity vs Shyam Kishore Das And Ors. on 22 April, 1958
These observations are relied upon for the judgment-debtor. If on the basis of the above observation the learned Judges of the Madras High Court can be said to have taken the view that the right to apply for mesne profits arises only after happening of one of the events mentioned in Order 20, Rule 12 of the Code, with respect, I would differ from that view. As, I have said above, the provisions in Order 20, Rule 12 (1) of the Code while doing away with the necessity of filing a fresh suit for future mesne profits accruing after the institution of the suit enable the Court to direct enquiry as to future
mesne profits for the period specified in Clause (c) (iii) of Rule 12. Once such a direction is given in the preliminary decree, the right to apply for ascertainment of
the mesne profits in my view arises immediately after the passing of the preliminary decree. All that clause (c) of
Rule 12 (1) provides is that the decree-holder will be entitled for ascertainment of mesne profits only for a particular period. The provisions do not prohibit the decree-holder from applying for ascertainment of the mesne profits, or the provisions do not compel the decree-holder to wait until any of the three events contemplated by clause (c) (iii) occurs. This view finds support from the observations of the Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court in Kanai Lal Maity v. Shyam Kishore Das . The observations are (at pp. 77, 78):