JUDGMENT :

DIPANKAR DATTA, J.

CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 7920-7921 OF 2024

[ARISING OUT OF SLP (CIVIL) NOS. 19647-48 OF 2022]

Leave granted.

2. These appeals assail the common judgment and order dated 27th April, 2022¹[impugned order, hereafter] of the High Court for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad²[High Court, hereafter] allowing Review I.A. No. 1/2020 in LPA 1/2018 and Review I.A. No. 3/2020 in CA 33/2017³[review petitions, hereafter] preferred by the first respondent. The impugned order of the High Court recalled the order under review and dismissed a contempt appeal as well as a letters patent appeal of the appellant.

3. The present dispute emerges from a complex and interwoven set of legal proceedings, involving myriad parties and decisions rendered by both judicial and quasi-judicial authorities. The factual matrix, to the extent relevant for adjudication of these civil appeals, is noticed hereunder:

I. Ms. Sultana Jahan Begum, daughter of Nawab Moin-ud-Dowla Bahadur, instituted Original Suit 130/1953⁴[civil suit, hereafter] (since renumbered as Civil Suit 07/1958 upon its transfer to the High Court) before the City Civil Court, Andhra Pradesh, seeking partition of her father’s propertie