2013 Supreme(Kar) 1033
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BANGALORE
B.S. Patil, J.
N. Sidda Reddy —Appellant
Vs.
T.V. Ramakrishna Reddy —Respondent
Regular Second Appeal No. 164 of 2011
Decided on : 28-02-2013
Advocate Appeared:
S.M. Chandrashekar, K. Suman, for the Appellant
C.M. Nagabushana, P.V. Chandrashekar, for the Respondent
Headnote:KARNATAKA LAND REVENUE ACT, 1964 - Sections 128 & 129: [B.S. Patil, J] Index of lands, revenue entries, survey sketch - Evidentiary value of entries - Held, For such entries there must be corresponding order under Sections 128 and 129 of the Act.
KARNATAKA LAND REVENUE ACT, 1964 - Section 133: [B.S. Patil, J] Entry in Revenue Record - Presumption - Held, A revenue record cannot form basis for the title to the property. In the instant case, what is worse is that the revenue entries in Ex.P.10 on which reliance is placed by the appellant are not proceeded by any mutation proceedings and the entries are not certified mutation entries. Such revenue records do not warrant presumption as per Section 133 of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act. Only those entries which have been lawfully entered will have statutory presumption. Both the Courts below while recording the finding that the plaintiff had failed to establish his case, have categorically found that the defendant having produced documents at Exs. D. 1 to D.24, has shown that he purchased the suit schedule property from its previous vendors and that he has been in possession and enjoyment of the same.
TRANSFER OF PROPERTY ACT, 1882 - Section 55: [B.S. Patil, J] Purchase of lands - Mother sale deed described the land as East-West 23 yards and North-Sought 173 yards - In the previous deed it was shown as 22 guntas - In the present sale deed it is 01 acre 08 guntas - Dispute i in respect of actual survey number whether it is Sy. No.47/1B or 201/2 - plaintiff has laid his claim in respect of Survey No.47/1B, although he was tracing his title to the said sale deeds without offering any acceptable explanation - Lower Courts declined to declare plaintiff as owner of the suit land - Held, Plaintiff has failed to explain and establish his title. Second appeal dismissed.
B.S. Patil, J.—The suit filed by the plaintiff seeking declaration of his title and for permanent injunction in respect of the land to an extent of 01 acre 09 guntas including 01 gunta of phot kharab in Survey No. 47/1B of Kudlu Village, Sarjapura Hobli, Anekal Taluk was dismissed by the Trial Court. The appeal preferred against the said judgment also came to be dismissed by the learned Judge of the Fast Track Court II of Bangalore Rural District thereby, confirming the judgment and decree passed by the Trial Court. Therefore, aggrieved by the concurrent findings of both the Courts below, this regular second appeal is filed by the plaintiff. The case of the plaintiff was that he purchased the suit land under Ex, P. 1-sale deed dated 22-11-1965 from one Chinnaiah alias Arasappa. His vendor, it was urged, had purchased the same under Ex. P. 22-registered sale deed dated 12-5-1958 from one Muninarasamma. Muninarasamma in turn had purchased the same from her vendor Channappa and Yellappa vide registered sale deed dated 15-5-1957 (Ex. P. 21). Title of Chinnappa and Yellappa was traced under Ex. P. 20-sale deed dated 22-5-1951 from their vendor Sri Kullappa. Kullappa's title in turn was traced to the sale deed dated 10-4-1939 vide Ex. P. 19 whereunder he purchased the land from one Kalu Muniga. It is thus clear from the case of the plaintiff, as made out in the plaint and in his evidence that the original owner of the land was one Kalu Muniga from whom after it changed various hands finally came to be purchased by the plaintiff as per Ex. P. 1-registered sale deed dated 22-11-1965 from one Channayya alias Arasappa. It has to be noticed, at this stage, that the property purchased by Muniga vide Ex. P. 19-sale deed dated 10-4-1939, the original owner to whom the ultimate title of the land is traced, is described in terms of yards and the survey number of the property has not been mentioned in the mother deed. It only describes it as measuring East-West 23 yards and North-South 173 Yards. When the first purchase was made by Kullappa on 22-5-1951, the extent of land was described as 0.22 guntas and for the first time the survey number has been mentioned as 201/2 with certain specified boundaries. When the land changed several hands upon purchase by Chinnappa and Yellappa vide Ex. P. 21 dated 15-5-1957 the measurement/extent of the land was shown as 0.34 guntas and survey number has been mentioned as 201/2 with certain specified boundary. When the vendors of the plaintiff Channayya alias Arasappa purchased the property under Ex. P. 22 vide sale deed dated 12-5-1958, the extent of land was mentioned as 0.34 guntas in Survey No. 201/2. The present plaintiff-N. Sidda Reddy claims to have purchased the land under Ex. P. 1-sale deed on 22-11-1965 wherein it has been described as Sy. No. 201/2. But, in the plaint schedule the property in question has been described as under:
Sy. No. 47/1B measuring 01 acre 08 guntas situated at Kudlu Village, Sarjapura Hobli, Anekal Taluk along with standing coconut trees and mango trees thereon facing eastern side, bounded on the:
East by : Defendant's property
West by : Plaintiffs property
North by : Plaintiffs property and land belong to Eramma
South by : HAL Society property.
2. It is therefore clear that there is variance in the extent of land for which the suit is filed seeking declaration and injunction and the extent of the property, the plaintiff claims to have purchased vide sale deed-Ex. P. 1. Even the extent of the land mentioned in the title deeds of the predecessor in title of the plaintiff is also not in conformity with the description or the measurement given in the plaint. It is in this background, both the Courts below have found that there was no acceptable explanation forthcoming from the plaintiff as to how the measurement of the land was described as 01 acre 08 guntas which was different from the original description mentioned in the various earlier sale deeds produced at Exs. P. 1, P.