03 March 2022

Ex parte order passed in the other class suit No. 60/2020 (Deed Cancelation)

 The record is taken up for passing the necessary order. This is a suit for the cancellation of the deed. Perused the plaint, deposition of the plaintiff as P.W- 01, the documentary evidences available on the case record.

Upon consideration of the materials on record, it appears that the plaintiff’s case has been proved by evidence as well as sufficient implications that the defendant executed the suit deed by practicing fraud upon the plaintiff who never intended the same to be executed. It appears that the facts of the deed were reduced into the deed through active concealment of the quantity of lands to the plaintiff. Besides, the PW-01 claimed that he is still in possession of the suit land comprised in the schedule to the plaint. So, the deed in question is not acted upon. Nothing is proved to be contrary. So, it is proved that the deed is yet to be acted upon against the plaintiff.  It is well settled that a fraudulent deed is voidable at the option of the person upon whom such fraud is practiced. The plaintiff prays here for the cancelation of the suit deed.

Furthermore, no doubt the suit deed is a registered deed. Under sections 59-60 of the Registration Act read with sections 79 and 114 (illustration e) of the Evidence Act, there arises a presumption that the very deed was duly presented and registered. Here is the general rule of law that [a] registered document carries the presumption of correctness of the endorsement made therein and that one who disputes the said presumption is under the law required to dislodge the correctness of the endorsement in the registered document (vide 55 DLR AD 39). Since it becomes decisive to the court that the suit deed was not acted upon and the plaintiff is now in the possession of the suit lands, and the deed in question was provably executed and registered by way of practicing fraud upon the plaintiff, it is the court’s view that the presumption of correctness of the endorsement of the suit deed is rebutted with convincing and sufficient evidence.

So, the cumulative effect and cogency of legal inference help the court hold that the plaintiff has proved his case, and thus, the suit deserves to be decreed. As such, it is decided that the plaintiff may get the relief as prayed for.

The court fee paid is sufficient.

Hence, it is ordered

that the suit is decreed ex parte against the defendants without costs. The suit deed as scheduled to the plaint is hereby canceled. The concerned Sub-Registrar is directed to take note of its cancellation on the copy of the suit deed contained in the concerned volume of his office and also ordered to report the same to the court.

Let a copy of this order be sent to the Sub-Registry Office concerned at once.