Ajay Kumar Mittal, J.

1. Having lost before the Courts below, the appellant-plaintiff No.3 has approached this Court by way of instant Regular Second Appeal challenging the judgment and decree dated 17.8.2016 passed by the District Judge, Sonipat, affirming that of the Civil Judge (Junior Division), Sonipat, whereby the suit of the plaintiffs for declaration with consequential relief of permanent injunction, was dismissed.

2. The facts necessary for the disposal of the present appeal are that the plaintiffs filed a suit for declaration with consequential relief of permanent injunction alleging that their father Shri Vishwa Nath was in possession of the property as detailed and described in para 1 of the plaint. It was further alleged that the disputed property forming part of the house was in abandoned condition in the year 1960 and the father of the plaintiffs had started living there along with family. The house in question was in a dilapidated condition and, therefore, the father of the plaintiffs had reconstructed it in the year 1975 after getting the site plan sanctioned from the Municipal Committee, Sonipat. It was further alleged that from the time of their father, t