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Amandeep Kaur Vs Kuldeep Singh and Others

Case No: T.A. No. 535 of 2011 (O and M) and Suit No. 227 of 10.08.2011

Date of Decision: Sept. 13, 2012

Acts Referred: Constitution of India, 1950 — Article 227#Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Section 41

Citation: (2012) 168 PLR 780

Hon'ble Judges: K. Kannan, J

Bench: Single Bench

Advocate: Vaibhav Sehgal, for the Appellant;

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Judgement

K. Kannan, J.@mdashThe application for transfer is sought by the wife setting the several reasons as to how the transfer would be necessary. It is

also pointed out that the husband has filed a frivolous suit only to harass her. Going by the contentions raised, I had sought for requisition of file

from the Court below. I had expressed in Court on 06.08.2012 and made it a part of the docket order that the suit was prima facie untenable and

it has to be examined whether a transfer of the case would be necessary at all. The file has been requisitioned and it is before this Court. The

husband who has been represented through counsel is absent. The suit has been filed by the husband against his wife and the parents of the

petitioner/wife for the following relief: restraining the defendants foisting the plaintiff in any false criminal case with the help of police illegally and

further restraining the defendants from harassing the plaintiff on the basis of any false and frivolous application. The petitioner''s sisters have been

also arrayed as respondents 4 and 5. The prayer in suit is for injunction restraining the defendant from filing any false case with the help of the

police and restraining the defendant from harassing the plaintiff. Section 41 of the Specific Relief Act details circumstances when injunction shall be

refused. A prosecution of proceeding itself cannot be a relief that can be sought under the guise of an apprehension that a false case can be

instituted. A plaintiff cannot ask for a restraint against a false case to be instituted, for, it should be only taken that the plaintiff is essentially asking

for prosecution of any legal proceeding itself. If the framing of suit was to be judicially approved then, it would mean that every plaintiff get over an

interdict of the provisions of the Act by the averment that the prosecution of any suit is for an illegal or untenable remedy. If any such suit were to

be instituted and it is to be contested that it is false and frivolous, there are provisions both under the civil and criminal procedure for rejection of

plaint, for discharge of accused and for quashing of complaint, respectively. It cannot be presaged as to whether a complaint or a suit were to be

treated as frivolous even before the actual initiation of the action. The suit, therefore, for a declaration that the defendant shall not institute any false

case with the help of police, cannot be granted. A further prayer that the defendant shall not harass the plaintiff by any false case can only be by

means of an actual proof of harassment, which could secure to the plaintiff in proceeding a relief of judicial separation or divorce or if the wife is

joined by other persons involving him in mental harassment or suffering, a remedy for damages would also be available. By all accounts a suit on

the prayer contained in the plaint cannot survive consideration. Such a suit is not a suit in the eye of law and it will be a waste of judicial time to

entertain the case on board. The suit ought to be summarily thrown out of the judicial corridors. The power of a Court under the jurisdictional

ambit of Article 227 ought to be available to enforce an appropriate supervision to see that there is no misuse or abuse of judicial process. I find

the suit to be one such exercise indulged by a husband against the wife and all the members of the family. The plaint is quashed and taken off the

record.

2. The transfer application is disposed of as having become unnecessary.