C. Y. SOMAYAJULU, J.

( 1 ) WIFE of first petitioner and mother of petitioners 2 to 10 by name Kanaka Durga Lalitha Kumari (hereinafter called the plaintiff) filed OS No. 192 of 1991 on the file of the Court of II Additional Senior Civil Judge, Vijayawada, inter alia for partition of the property specified in the schedule appended to the plaint in two equal shares, which is an upstairs building in Ward No. 11 of Vijayawada Municipality, Revenue Ward No. 6, with Assessment No. 8071, Block-II, I Town, Vijayawada) within the boundaries specified in the schedule appended to the plaint, which hereinafter would be called as the suit property , and for allotment of one such share to her with profits, past and future: on the ground that Lakshmi Venkata Narasimha Rao, her father, and adopted the first respondent, gifted half share in the suit property towards pasupa Kunkuma to her at the time of her marriage. First respondent contested the suit denying the gift in favour of the plaintiff, and contending that the suit property was gifted to him by his adoptive father Lakshmi Venkata Narasimha Rao [herein after called narasimha Rao ] under a registered settlement deed dated 22-4-1981 (Ex. .

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