JUDGMENT :

T.S. Thakur, J.

Leave granted.

2. These appeals arise out of a common judgment and order dated 30th May, 2012 passed by a Single Bench of the High Court of Karnataka at Bangalore whereby the High Court has allowed RFA Nos. 912, 914, 915 and 916 of 2002, set aside the judgments and orders of the courts below and dismissed the suits relevant to those appeals. The High Court has, at the same time, affirmed the decree passed in OS No. 6925 of 2001 and dismissed RFA No. 911 of 2002 filed by the Appellant against the same. The factual backdrop in which the suits and the appeals mentioned above came to be filed may be summarised as under :

3. M. Venkatesh-Appellant in SLP (C) No. 38601 of 2012 claimed ownership over the suit schedule property by inheritance from his grandfather Munishamappa who is said to have purchased the same under a registered sale-deed dated 7th July, 1954. In connected SLP (C) No. 12016 of 2013 Prabhaudas Patel also claimed to be the owner of suit schedule property relevant to his suit on the basis of purchase of the said property from its previous owner. The aforementioned two parcels of land together with a larger extent in the vicinity were acquired by the