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Issues: (i) Whether the recovery notice could lawfully include collection charges when no property had been sold in the recovery process; (ii) Whether the petitioner was entitled to release of the title deeds despite the subsisting liability under the loan transaction.
Issue (i): Whether the recovery notice could lawfully include collection charges when no property had been sold in the recovery process.
Analysis: Recovery of dues under the relevant recovery statute and the land revenue rules permitted recovery of the amount due together with costs of proceedings, but the actual collection charge depended on the incidence of recovery proceedings and, in the case of sale-related charges, on an actual sale of property. Where no sale had taken place, the levying of collection charges was without legal basis.
Conclusion: The recovery notice was invalid to the extent it included collection charges, and that part of the demand was quashed in favour of the petitioner.
Issue (ii): Whether the petitioner was entitled to release of the title deeds despite the subsisting liability under the loan transaction.
Analysis: A claim for damages for breach of contract does not become an enforceable debt until adjudicated, and rescission of the contract did not extinguish the borrower's obligation to restore the benefit received under the loan. The loan amount with interest remained repayable as a sum certain, and the title deeds had been deposited as security by way of equitable mortgage. Until redemption of the mortgage, the borrower could not demand return of the title deeds in writ proceedings.
Conclusion: The petitioner was not entitled to immediate release of the title deeds, and that relief was refused.
Final Conclusion: The petition succeeded only to the limited extent of invalidating the collection charges demand, while the loan liability and mortgage security remained enforceable according to law.
Ratio Decidendi: Collection charges cannot be recovered without legal authority or an actual basis in the recovery process, and a borrower who has received loan funds under a mortgage arrangement cannot demand return of the security title deeds without redeeming the mortgage, even if contractual disputes or unassessed damage claims are asserted.
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