IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PIUS C.KURIAKOSE WEDNESDAY, THE 16TH JANUARY 2008 / 26TH POUSHA 1929 WP(C).No. 19311 of 2004(Y) -------------------------- OS.429/1998 of MUNSIFF COURT, MANJERI .................... PETITIONER: -------------------- SIDDIQUE, S/O. ALAVI, KARAKUNNU AMSOM DESOM, ERNAD TALUK, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.R.RAJESH KORMATH SMT.PREETHY KARUNAKARAN SMT.M.R.MINI SMT.MEENA.A. SMT.SANJANA R.NAIR SRI.JAYKAR.K.S. SRI.RAHUL VARMA SRI.V.S.ROBIN RESPONDENTS: ------------------------ 1. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SURVEY AND LAND RECORDS, MALAPPURAM. 2. MOIDEENKUTTY, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 3. PATHUMMA, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 4. NABEESA, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. Kss ..2/- ...2.... WPC.NO.19311/2004 Y 5. SAINABA, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 6. RUKHIYA, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 7. KUNHACHUMMA, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 8. AMINA, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 9. ASKAR ALI, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 10. AMEERA BANU, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 11. AMLAS ALI, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 12. ASLAMATH (MINOR), THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 13. HASNATH (MINOR), THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 14. KOKKADAN IBRAHIM, THAZHETHETHIL HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 15. PARAPPAN AYISSA, W/O. KOKKADAN ABOOBACKER, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. Kss ...3/- ...3..... WPC.NO.19311/2004 Y 16. RUKHIYA, W/O. KOKKADAN MUHAMMED, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 17. KAMBRATH PULIKKODAN AYYOOB, S/O. ALAVI, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 18. BALACHANDRAN, S/O.MANKUNNAN VELUKUTTY, MANKUNNAN HOUSE, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 19. SURESH KUMAR (DIED). 20. PRADEEP KUMAR, S/O.MANKUNNAN VELUKUTTY, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 21. PATHMAVATHI, W/O. BALACHANDRAN, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 22. SAROJINI, D/O.MANKUNNAN VELUKUTTY, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 23. VALSALA, D/O.MANKUNNAN VELUKUTTY, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 24. SREEDEVI, W/O. BHASKARAN, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 25. ANUSHA, D/O. BHASKARAN, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 26. ASHIDA, D/O. BHASKARAN, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. Kss ...3/- ...4..... WPC.NO.19311/2004 Y 27. THUNCHERI PARAMBIL SUNUBHAI, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 28. AKSHAY (MINOR), SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. 29. SIDHU VINAYAK, SHAPPINKUNNU, P.O. KARAKUNNU, MANJERI, MALAPPURAM-672 123. (RSPDTS.12 & 13 ARE REP.BY NEXT FRIEND 8TH RESPT). (RSPDTS.26 & 27 ARE REP.BY NEXT FRIEND 25TH RSPDT). (RSPDTS.27 TO 29 WERE IMPLEADED IN SUIT AFTER IA.1000 & 999/04WERE DISMISSED) R15,R16,R18,R20,R22 TO R29 BY ADV. SRI.K.M.SATHYANATHA MENON THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 16/01/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: Kss WPC.NO.19311/2004 Y APPENDIX PETITIONER'S EXHIBITS: EXT.P1: COPY OF THE AFFIDAVIT DTD. 18/05/2004 ACCOMPANYING I.A.NO.1000 OF 2004 IN O.S.NO.429 OF 1998 ON THE FILE OF THE COURT OF MUNSIFF OF MANJERI. EXT.P2: COPY OF THE AFFIDAVIT DTD. 18/05/2004 ACCOMPANYING I.A.NO.999 OF 2004 IN O.S.NO.429 OF 1998 ON THE FILE OF THE COURT OF THE MUNSIFF OF MANJERI. EXT.P3: COPY OF THE ORDER DTD. 21/05/2004 IN I.A.NO.1000 OF 2004 IN O.S.NO.429 OF 1998 ON THE FILE OF THE COURT OF MUNSIFF OF MANJERI. EXT.P4: COPY OF THE ORDER DTD. 21/05/2004 IN I.A.NO.999 OF 2004 IN O.S.NO.429 OF 1998 ON THE FILE OF THE COURT OF MUNSIFF OF MANJERI. /TRUE COPY/ P.A.TO JUDGE Kss PIUS C. KURIAKOSE,J. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - W.P.(C) No.19311 of 2004 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dated: 16th January, 2008 JUDGMENT Under challenge in this Writ Petition are Exts.P3 and P4 orders by which the learned Munsiff dismissed the applications filed by the plaintiff-petitioner for impleading the State of Kerala and also for grant of leave under Section 80(2) of the C.P.C. to institute a suit against the State without notice. A perusal of Exts.P3 and P4 will show that the reason which weighed with the learned Munsiff was the delay in the matter of filing the applications. On behalf of Mr.K.M.Sathianatha Menon, counsel for the respondent, it is submitted that the delay was inordinate. The suit stood trial for about five years. After the suit was special listed for trial that the applications were filed. It is seen that the issues were formulated in the suit for trial on 27.8.2003 and the applications which have been dismissed were filed little more than one year thereafter. The applications were in fact filed after a provisional list was published by the court including the present suit also in the same. One of the reliefs sought for in the suit is that an order passed by the first defendant in the suit, the Deputy Director of Survey and Land Records, shall not be implemented. The Deputy Director of Survey W.P.C.No.19311/04 - 2 - and Land Records had been made a party to the suit and the court had granted leave under Section 80(2) as regards the institution of the suit against him. It appears to me that the petitioner was alerted about Order 27 Rule 5A introduced in the C.P.C. by 76th amendment mandating that in all suits were public officers are made parties, the State also should necessarily be made a party. In fact in the averments in the affidavit in support of the petitions it is stated that it was by oversight, the State could not be made a party. The averments, according to me, are fairly convincing. At the same time, the applications cannot be allowed unconditionally. Accordingly, I set aside the impugned orders and order that both the I.As. will stand allowed on condition that the petitioner will pay a sum of Rs.1500/- by way of cost to the contesting respondents either directly or through their counsel in this court and a further sum of Rs.500/- to the Eranad Taluk Legal Services Committee. Both the payments shall be made within six weeks from today, failing which the impugned orders will stand confirmed and the Writ Petition will stand dismissed. But if payments are made, impugned orders will stand set aside and the I.A. filed by the petitioner will stand allowed. Since the suit is of the year 1998, the learned Munsiff will give top priority to the suit W.P.C.No.19311/04 - 3 - and facilitate final disposal of the suit by including the same in the special list after the pleadings are completed and issues are raised. srd PIUS C.KURIAKOSE, JUDGE