JUDGMENT :

1. This Appeal is filed by the Appellants challenging the Judgment and Decree dated 19 May 2023 passed by the District Judge-2, Kolhapur allowing Regular Civil Appeal No. 230 of 2016 and reversing the Judgment and Decree dated 8 July 2016 passed by the 8th Joint Civil Judge Junior Division, Kolhapur in Regular Civil Suit No. 912 of 2014. On account of the impugned decree passed by the first Appellate Court, Plaintiff’s suit for recovery of possession of the suit property has been decreed with further directions to conduct an enquiry into mesne profits under Order 21 Rule 12(1C) of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (the Code). Appellants, who are Original Defendants, are aggrieved by the decision of the first Appellate Court and have filed the present Appeal.

2. House property bearing City Survey No. 1046-C/13/3 admeasuring 33.6 sq.mtrs and two rooms in the house constructed thereon on the first floor admeasuring 386 sq. ft at Kolhapur is the subject matter of the suit (suit property). Plaintiff's case, as pleaded in the plaint, is that the land bearing C.T.S. No.1046/13/9/13 admeasuring 127.3 sq.mtrs was owned by Mr. Annaso Gangadhar Athane. Out of that property, an area