GAUTAM KUMAR CHOUDHARY
Kali Charan Pandey – Appellant
Versus
Mohan Lal Mahto – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Gautam Kumar Choudhary, J.
1. This Second Appeal has been filed against the judgment and decree passed in Title Appeal No. 64 of 1990 whereby and where under the judgment and decree passed in Title Suit No. 27 of 1986/12 of 1988, has been reversed.
2. Parties shall be referred to by their original placement in the suit and shall include the legal representatives substituted at different stages.
3. Plaintiff’s suit is for declaration of the sale deed to be executed by his father in favour of a third party, as it pertained to ancestral property in which the plaintiff had subsisting interest.
4. Plaintiff’s suit was decreed by the Trial Court, and reversed in appeal by the first Appellate Court.
5. Plaintiff’s case is that Rangu Pandey was the great grandfather of the plaintiff. He had two sons Shankar Pandey and Sibu Pandey @ Shib Dayal Pandey from his wife, and one son Meghu Singh from his concubine. Shib Dayal Pandey died leaving behind a son Thakur Prasad Pandey who was defendant no. 2 in this case and died during the course of trial. Shankar Pandey and Shib Dayal Pandey had land in village Honhay which was recorded under khata no. 136 and under khata no. 22 and 94 of village
The karta of a Hindu Joint Family can validly alienate joint family property for legal necessity or benefit of the estate, binding all family members.
The court affirmed that ancestral property rights are inherent to all coparceners, and sales executed without consent are invalid.
The court reaffirmed that a sale deed executed for family and legal necessity by a joint family member is binding, barring challenge by family members after significant delay without sufficient cause....
The validity of a sale deed executed by a Hindu Undivided Family member is upheld when legal necessity is demonstrated, despite claims of ancestral rights by co-parceners.
The burden of proof lies on the party alleging ancestral or joint property, and without evidence to support the claim, the Courts may reject the suit.
The main legal point established is the application of Sec. 41 of the Transfer of Property Act, the exclusion of contrary evidence, and the principles of Hindu Law regarding co-parcenary property and....
The legal principle established is that in cases involving the sale of joint family property, the burden of proving legal necessity lies with the purchaser only if the plaintiffs have properly pleade....
A claim of partition in Hindu joint family property must be substantiated with credible evidence; conjecture does not suffice.
The main legal point established in the judgment is the binding nature of a sale deed executed by the family manager, the entitlement of daughters to ancestral property under the Amended Hindu Succes....
Property inherited after the Hindu Succession Act is treated as separate property, affirming a vendor's absolute right to sell without objections from family members.
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