JUDGMENT :- The Ganga flows along vast sandy tracts which human philanthropy has dotted with elegant ghats. In the city of Kanpur there is a long belt of land on the bank of the Ganges which is compendiously known as the Guptar Ghat. At present it actually consists of four ghats namely Ram Chandra Ghat. Narain Ghat, Akharha Ghat and Brahma Mandal Ghat. To the south of these ghats is situate bungalow No.160 which is now known as the Police D.I.G. (Deputy Inspector General of Police) Bungalow. It appears that in the year 1892 there was no regular ghat by the side of this land and the land was irregular and kachcha. Gradually ghats sprang up. The first in point of time was the Brahma Mandal Ghat which was constructed pacca by the Brahma Mandal about 45 years ago. In or about the year 1930 one Asha Rama built another pacca ghat by the side of Brahma Mandal Ghat which came to be known as Lala Ram Chandra Ghat. Then thereafter Akharha Ghat came into existence and then the defendant Prem Club constructed the pacca ghat known as Narain Ghat in the year 1956. The controversy in the suit giving rise to the present appeal was confined to a portion of the Guptar Ghat known as the Narain Ghat w

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