JUDGMENT :

Nidhi Gupta, J.

Present appeals have been filed by the State/ defendants No.1 to 3, against the judgment and decree dated 15.06.2001 passed by learned Additional District Judge, Kurukshetra whereby Civil Appeal No.349 of 1998 filed by plaintiff Ram Singh, and Civil Appeal No.78 of 2001 filed by plaintiff Sharda Rani against the dismissal of their suit by the ld. trial Court vide common judgment and decree dated 11.09.1997, have been allowed. Both the appeals are being disposed of by this common order as both appeals emanate from same incident; facts & issues involved in both the appeals are identical; as also these appeals are against common impugned judgment and decree dated 15.06.2001 whereby the appeals filed by the respondents/plaintiffs were allowed by the learned Additional District Judge.

2. The parties shall hereinafter be referred to as per their status before the learned trial Court i.e. the appellants as the 'defendants' and the respondent as 'the plaintiff'. For the sake of convenience, the facts are being drawn from RSA-3889-2001 titled as 'The State of Haryana & Others Vs. Ram Singh & Another'.

3. The plaintiffs Ram Singh and Sharda Rani are husband and wife. T