12 April 2022

Ad interim injunction is passed in the Other Class Suit No. 27/2022

Heard. The record is taken up for passing the necessary order. Perused the petition dated 22.03.2022 under Order 39 Rule 1/2 along with section 151 of the 1908 Code of Civil procedure, and the petition for ad-interim injunction dated 04.04.2022, supporting affidavits, the plaint, and the materials available on record. On such perusal, it appears to the court through the latter petition, the plaintiffs pray for relief in the name of ‘ad-interim injunction’ against the defendants. The plaintiff underscores for an ad-interim order by mentioning that a plot from the suit lands is already forcibly made by the defendants out of their possession, and thus, there arises an enormous threat of dispossessing the plaintiffs from other plots of the suit lands as well.  

However, it further appears that in cognizance of the submitted documents on the petitioner’s behalf and other materials on record, the petitioners appeared to have a prima facie case regarding the lands from which they are alleged to be dispossessed. Accordingly, the court issued a show-cause notice upon the O.Ps. as to why the prayed reliefs should not to be granted as such. Being served of the notice, the O.Ps appeared before the court and today, submitted written objections to the said petitions. Noticeably, today the OPs have submitted their written objections. So it is opportune to proceed to hear the petition for a temporary injunction dated 22.03.2022 on the already fixed date. Moreover, since today is fixed for hearing upon the petition for an ad-interim injunction dated 04.04.2022, the court is considering this petition with the presence of both sides.  

It transpires that having turned up for a hearing with the matters in question, the petitioners emphasized the hearing of their instant petition, and the opposite party also participated in the hearing. As such, having placed some supporting documents, the plaintiff petitioners pleaded for an urgent order on their behalf and also brought a fact to the court’s notice that the defendants have already forcibly made the plaintiffs out of their possession from the lands of 17 decimal from the plot No. 292 of the suit lands. The petitioners also pleaded that the O.Ps are still trying to change the types and their mode of possession in the suit lands, and thus, prayed for an ad-interim order meanwhile. On perusal of the materials on record, it appears that the petitioner has a good standing for convincingly demonstrating the incidents of the threats for dispossession. In such a condition, it is the court’s view that unless the O.Ps are restrained as such, the mode of possession, type of the suit land may be changed; and the purpose of the suit and the instant petition may be frustrated; thus, the petitioners appear to be prejudiced. In the background of such a condition and the nature of the instant case, the court is of view that instead of a temporary injunction, an ad-interim injunction may be issued against the O.Ps in the present context till the disposal of the respective petition for temporary injunction.

Hence, it is ORDERED that an ad-interim injunction be issued against the opposite parties till the disposal of the petition dated 22.03.2022. The opposite parties are hereby restrained from changing the nature, character, and the mode of possession in the suit lands by means of whatsoever.

The Officer-in-Charge of the concerned police station shall take the necessary steps to maintain the sanctity and force of this order. Send copies of this order to the concerned attached with the requisite information as to the suit lands.

Writs are to be put in at once.

Keep the defendants’ written objections on the record. The already fixed date being 25.05.2022 is for hearing on the petitions for temporary injunction.