This Civil Revision Petition is filed against the fair and decreetal order dated 31.10.2017 made in Un Numbered I.A. in R.C.O.P. No. 1 of 2006 on the file of District Munsif, Sirkali.
2. The revision petitioner filed an Interlocutory Application in R.C.O.P. No.1 of 2016 under Section 151 of Code of Civil Procedure, before the Rent Control Authority, staying all further proceedings in the suit, till a final decision is taken in the Suit in O.S. No.82 of 2014. The Court below, in the un-numbered stage, returned the application stating that the Rent Control Authority has no provision to decide a petition filed under Code of Civil Procedure. According to the petitioners, in the light of the decision of this Court in the case of G.P.Vanitha vs.Thanasekar and others reported in (2016) 5 CTC 329, the court below cannot dismiss the application on merits, without numbering the application. Therefore, the present Revision Petition is filed before this Court.
3. The learned counsel for the 1st respondent would submit that in the light of the decision cited above, the Court below ought to have numbered the Application and thereafter decided the issues on merits. However, in the event of setting aside the order passed by the Court below, this Court may fix a time frame to dispose of the said Application, if it is otherwise in order.
4. In the light of the decisions of this Court in the case of K.Venkatesan & Ors. vs. E. Hemantharaj reported in CDJ 2016 MHC 5629 and the case of G.V. Vanitha & Ors. vs. K. Dhanasekaran & Ors. reported in 2016 (5) CTC 329 and considering the submission made of the learned counsel for the parties, this Court is inclined to pass the following order :
1. The order dated 31.10.2017 passed in the unnumbered I.A... in R.C.O.P. 1 of 2006, is set aside.
2. The Trial Court is directed to number the said Interlocutory Application, if it is otherwise in order, within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, subject to the maintainability of the said Application.
3. At the time of hearing the Application, the trial court is directed to consider the objections made by the respondents including maintainability of the said Application and then decide the matter on merits, in accordance with law.
5. The Civil Revision Petition is allowed, on the above terms. Consequently, the connected Miscellaneous Petition is closed. No costs.
20.11.2017 Index :Yes/No avr To The District Munsif Court, Rent Controller Sirkali.
D.KRISHNAKUMAR,J.
avr CRP(PD)No.4235 of 2017 and C.M.P. No.19860 of 2017 20.11.2017