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1 - 10 of 14 (0.28 seconds)Article 65 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
The Limitation Act, 1963
Section 151 in The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 [Entire Act]
Karnataka Board Of Wakf vs Government Of India & Ors on 16 April, 2004
15. During the course of the arguments, a plea was also taken by the
respondent/original plaintiff in respect of the suit being barred by limtation as the
period of twelve years for the purpose of the adverse possession were argued to
commence from the date of hostile assertion of the title which in present case has
been argued to commence from 1st week of October 2011 when the original
plaintiff/present respondent purchased the suit property and the counterclaim has
been argued to be premature. On the other hand, the Ld counsel for the counter
claimant has argued that the plaintiff as defined in Section 2(i) of the Limitation
Act inter alia includes any person through whom the plaintiff derives his right to
sue. Hence the period of limitation has been argued to have commenced in
November 2011 and the counter claim is claimed to be maintainable. The plea of
adverse possession is not a pure question of law but a blended one of law and fact
as well as the averments which have to be pleaded and established to establish the
case of adverse possession and the same has also been held by the Hon'ble
Supreme Court Karnataka Board of Wakf v. Government of India & Anr cited as
2004 (10) SCC 779 as well as Balsariya Construction Pvt. Ltd. v. Hanuman
Civil Suit No.131/12 Suresh Goel & Ors. Vs. G.S. Raghav (Counter claim) Page No.8 of 9
Sewa Trust cited as (2006) 5 SCC 658. Thus at this stage from the counter claim
itself it cannot be said that the counter claim is barred by the law of limitation and
it is for the counter claimant to prove that it is within the period of limitation on the
basis of averments made in the counter claim.
M/S. Crescent Petroleum Ltd. vs M.V. "Monchegorsk" & Another on 23 September, 1999
Strength for the proposition is also derived from
the judgment of the Hon'ble Bombay High Court in M/s. Crescent Petroleum Ltd.
Vs. "MONCHEGORSK" cited as AIR 2000 Bom 161.
Popat And Kotecha Property vs State Bank Of India Staff Association on 29 August, 2005
9. It is a settled preposition of law that while considering an application
u/o 7 Rule 11 CPC it has to be seen whether a cause of action has been set out in
the plaint or something purely illusionary has been stated and if on a meaningful
and not formal reading of the plaint it is manifestly vexatious and meritless in the
sense of not disclosing a clear right to sue Order 7 Rule 11 CPC should be invoked
and if clever drafting has created an illusion of cause of action it should be nipped
in the bud of first hearing. However, there cannot be any compartmentalisation,
dissection, segregation and inversion of the language of the various paragraphs in
the plaint and plaint should be taken as a whole. The legal proposition has been
reiterated by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Popat and Kotecha Property Vs. State
Bank Of India Staff Association cited as (2005) 7 SCC 510 and relied upon by the
counter claimant.
Nair Service Society Ltd vs Rev. Father K. C. Alexander & Ors on 12 February, 1968
16. The judgments of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Vasantiben
Prahaladji Nayak v. Somnath Muljibhai Nayak cited as 2004 (3) SCC 376 relied
upon by counter claimant in respect of the date of the commencement of the period
of limitation and of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Nair Service Society v. K.C.
Alexander cited as AIR 1968 SC 1165 are not relevant for the purpose of the
adjudication of the present application at this stage.
Amrendra Pratap Singh vs Tej Bahadur Prajapati & Ors on 21 November, 2003
Further the judgment of the
Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Amrendra Pratap Singh v. Tej Bahadur
Prajapati cited as (2004) 10 SCC 65 has also been relied upon by the counter
claimant to explain the nature of adverse possession however, the same is also not
relevant at this stage.
Vasantiben P. Nayak & Ors vs Somnath M. Nayak & Ors on 9 March, 2004
16. The judgments of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Vasantiben
Prahaladji Nayak v. Somnath Muljibhai Nayak cited as 2004 (3) SCC 376 relied
upon by counter claimant in respect of the date of the commencement of the period
of limitation and of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Nair Service Society v. K.C.
Alexander cited as AIR 1968 SC 1165 are not relevant for the purpose of the
adjudication of the present application at this stage.