The Kerala High Court on Wednesday clarified that a person, including a stranger to the suit apart from the judgment debtor or those claiming derivative title from the judgment debtor, is competent to challenge a sale of property under Order XXI Rule 90 of the CPC if their interests are affected by the sale.A Division Bench of Justice Anil K …
The Kerala High Court recently ruled that under the Code of Civil Procedure, when there is an order of rateable distribution for a property in favour of separate decree holders, one of them cannot claim to set-off their entire debt from the sale proceeds. "A conjoint reading of Section 73 and Order XXI Rule 72 would show that whenever a …