Sri Mahadeva Rao v. Smt Savithramma
Civil – Impleadment of parties – Order I Rule 10(2) read with Section 151 CPC
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ Petition (GM-CPC) No.2950 of 2025, High Court of Karnataka (NC: 2026:KHC:19451), decided 08.04.2026 by H.T. Narendra Prasad, J. Keywords: impleadment of purchaser pendente lite as plaintiff; Order I Rule 10(2) CPC; Section 151 CPC; necessary and proper party; discretionary power to add parties; no prejudice to defendants; plaintiffs' no-objection to impleadment; defendants' earlier application to implead applicant as defendant; Article 227 supervisory jurisdiction; Section 52 Transfer of Property Act 1882 contention (lis pendens) raised but not decided; O.S.No.69/2016 Anekal; K.N. Aswathnarayana Setty (2014) 15 SCC 394 cited by petitioners' counsel.
What did the court decide?
Since the plaintiffs did not object to the impleadment and the petitioners themselves had earlier sought to implead the applicant as a party, the Trial Court rightly allowed the application by impleading the applicant as plaintiff No.3.