IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No.2739 of 2009(O&M) Date of Decision 14.12.2009 Shokat Ali ...... Petitioner VERSUS Smt.Shakulat and another ...... Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.N.JINDAL Present: Mr.Balkar Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** A.N.JINDAL, J(ORAL): Aggrieved against the order dated 17.04.2009, passed by Civil Judge (Junior Division), Rewari, allowing the application of the defendants- respondents under Order 7 Rule 11 C.P.C., the petitioner-plaintiff (herein referred as 'the petitioner') has preferred this petition. Vide impugned order, the Court while replying upon the application of defendants-respondents Under Order 7 Rule 11 C.P.C., directed the petitioner to pay the ad-valorem Court fee as per the market value of the property involved under the decree which has been challenged by the petitioner. The petitioner has placed a strong reliance on the judgment delivered in case Smt.Beena and others versus Rajinder Kumar and others 2006 (2) P.L.R. 6. In the said case, the plaintiff had been directed to pay the Court fee in a suit for declaration and the sale deeds have been challenged on the ground that the land in dispute was ancestral and the same had been sold without legal necessity. It was observed in the said judgment that the trial Court had not taken into consideration the amendment made in Civil Revision No.2739 of 2009(O&M) -2- the State of Haryana vide Act No.22 of 1974. In the instant case also, the trial Court while allowing the application did not take into consideration the fact that the amendment made in the Court Fees Act vide Act No.22 of 1974 wherein Schedule Second Article 12 has been amended to provide for a fixed Court fee or Rs.25/- on the plaint to the suit for declaration where no consequential relief is prayed for. Thus, while following the ratio of Smt.Beena's Case (Supra), this petition is disposed of with a direction to the trial Court to redetermine the amount of Court fee payable in the terms of the aforesaid amendment in the State of Haryana. (A.N.Jindal) Judge 14.12.2009 mamta-II