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PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH
VIKRAM AGGARWAL
Neelam – Appellant
Versus
Abhishek – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Vikram Aggarwal, J. (Oral)
The defendant (Smt. Neelam) assails the judgment and decree dated 18.09.2024, passed by the Court of learned District Judge, Pathankot, dismissing the appeal against the judgment and decree dated 19.07.2018, passed by the Court of learned Addl. Civil Judge (Senior Division), Pathankot vide which the suit for possession filed by the respondents-plaintiffs was decreed.
2. The respondents-plaintiffs (Abhishek and Ankur) are the sons of Late Vijay Kumar. After the death of the mother of the respondents-plaintiffs, Vijay Kumar had solemnized marriage with the appellant-defendant. The property in dispute is a residential house constructed over a plot measuring 03 marlas (fully described in the plaint), situated in the revenue estate of Village Kuthiali, Had Bast No.341 (Teachers Colony), Tehsil and District Pathankot. The respondents-plaintiffs filed a suit for possession qua the said house (hereinafter referred to as 'the disputed house') claiming title on account of sale deed dated 14.08.2007 having been executed in their favour by Kamla Devi, who was their paternal grand mother. It was the case of the respondents-plaintiffs that mutation had also bee
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