Kumara Ravikumar vs K. Chandrasekaran @ Durai

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2025 Supreme(Mad) 2157

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
R. SAKTHIVEL
Kumara Ravikumar – Appellant
Versus
K. Chandrasekaran @ Durai – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr.A.Sundaravadhanan
For the Respondents: Mr.S.Mukund Senior Counsel for M/s.I.C.Vasudevan

JUDGMENT :

This Second Appeal is directed against the Judgment and Decree dated October 20, 2017, passed in A.S.No.9 of 2017 by the 'Subordinate Court, Sathyamangalam' ['First Appellate Court' for brevity], whereby the Judgment and Decree dated October 17, 2016 passed in O.S.No.207 of 2013 by the 'District Munsif, Sathyamangalam' ['Trial Court' for brevity] was confirmed.

2. For the sake of convenience, hereinafter, the parties will be referred to as per their array in the Original Suit.

PLAINTIFFS' CASE

3. Brief facts necessary for the disposing of this Second Appeal are as follows:

3.1. The plaintiffs are husband and wife and they have been living in the farm house in the Suit Property. 1st defendant is the younger brother of the 1st plaintiff, while 2nd defendant is his elder sister. The 1st and 2nd defendants own lands adjoining the Suit Property.

3.2. The first plaintiff, the defendants 1 and 2 along with their mother and two other brothers divided their ancestral properties by a Registered Partition Deed dated June 18, 1983. Vide the said Partition Deed, first plaintiff was allotted ‘C’ Schedule Properties therein consisting of 4.41 Acres of land in Survey No.314, and the first def