JUDGMENT

Pradeep Nandrajog, J. Late Sh.Ram Sahai Kapoor and his wife Late Smt.Satyawati Kapoor were blessed with seven children. Two sons and five daughters. The appellant Surinder Pal Kapoor and respondent No.2, Sh.Jogender Pal Kapoor are the two sons. Respondents No.1 and 3 to 6; Swaran Katyal, Rama Maini, Nisha Malhotra, Rashmi Sabharwal and Sushma Dheer are the sisters.

2. Swaran Katyal along with her two sisters Rama Maini and Nisha Malhotra as also her brother Jogender Pal filed a suit, impleading the appellant, Surinder Pal Kapoor, Rashmi Sabharwal and Sushma Dheer as defendants No.1, 2 and 3 respectively. It was pleaded in the plaint that Late Sh.Ram Sahai Kapoor was the owner of property bearing No.A-5, CC Colony, Opposite Rana Pratap Bagh Delhi, having purchased the same by a registered sale-deed dated June 06, 1967. It then comprised a basement and a ground floor on the plot of land ad-measuring 321.25 square yards. By virtue of a decree dated February 26, 1974 passed in suit No.26/1974 the learned Sub-Judge First Class, Jalandhar declared Satyawati as the owner of the rear portion of the property and on the death of Ram Sahai on November 17, 1979, the seven children r