Supreme Court of India

Desh Bandhu Gupta v. N L. Anand and Rajinder Singh

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Reported as [1993] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 346
Bench K. Ramaswamy and R.M. Sahai JJ.
Decided 17 September 1993

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that the. procedure adopted by the court in non-compliance of Order 21 Rule 66 and 67 is in flagrant breach of the mandatory provision.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Civil Procedure Code, 1908: Order 21 Rules 66, 67 and 54 ( 1- )---Sale of property in satisfaction of Court decree-Service of notice on judgment­ debtor mandatory-Sale proclamation-Furnishing relevant and material par- ticulars-Need for---Court to apply its mind-Obligation of Court to state valuation given by both the parties-In the absence of notice failure on the part of judgment-Debtor would not preclude him from raising objections after sale. Section 47, Order 21 Rules 90, 17 (4), 64, 66 (2) and Appendix , Fann 27-Extent of property to be sold in execution-Should be only to such an extent

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to

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