2025:APHC:395931 HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH * * * *

THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAVI NATH TILHARI &

THE HON’BL SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM A. S. No. 80 of 2018 &

C. R. P. Nos. 3813, 5818 and 5836 of 2017 A.S.No. 80 of 2018 Between:

Ayalasomayajula Bhavani Sankara Shastry .....APPELLANT AND Smt. Ayalasomayajula Lakshmi Narasamma (died)

Ayyalasomayajula Kanaka Rama Sarma and others .....RESPONDENTS CRP No. 3813 of 2017 Between:

Ayalasomayajula Bhavani Sankara Shastry .....PETITIONER AND Smt. Ayalasomayajula Lakshmi Narasamma (died)

Ayyalasomayajula Kanaka Rama Sarma and others .....RESPONDENTS CRP No. 5818 of 2017 Between:

Ayalasomayajula Bhavani Sankara Shastry .....PETITIONER AND Smt. Ayalasomayajula Lakshmi Narasamma (died)

Ayyalasomayajula Kanaka Rama Sarma and others .....RESPONDENTS CRP No. 5836 of 2017 Between:

Ayalasomayajula Bhavani Sankara Shastry .....PETITIONER AND Smt. Ayalasomayajula Lakshmi Narasamma (died)

Ayyalasomayajula Kanaka Rama Sarma and others .....RESPONDENTS DATE OF JUDGMENT RESERVED : 21.08.2025 DATE OF JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED: 17.12.2025 DATE OF JUDGMENT UPLOADED : 18.12.2025 SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL:

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAVI NATH TILHARI &

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM

1. Whether Reporters of Local newspapers Yes/No may be allowed to see the Judgments?

2. Whether the copies of judgment may be Yes/No marked to Law Reporters/Journals

3. Whether Your Lordships wish to see the fair Yes/No copy of the Judgment?

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RAVI NATH TILHARI, J ____________________________ MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM, J * THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAVI NATH TILHARI &

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM + A. S. No. 80 of 2018 &

C. R. P. Nos. 3813, 5818 and 5836 of 2017 % 17.12.2025 A.S.No. 80 of 2018 Between:

Ayalasomayajula Bhavani Sankara Shastry .....APPELLANT AND Smt. Ayalasomayajula Lakshmi Narasamma (died)

Ayyalasomayajula Kanaka Rama Sarma and others .....RESPONDENTS CRP No. 3813 of 2017 Between:

Ayalasomayajula Bhavani Sankara Shastry .....PETITIONER AND Smt. Ayalasomayajula Lakshmi Narasamma (died)

Ayyalasomayajula Kanaka Rama Sarma and others .....RESPONDENTS CRP No. 5818 of 2017 Between:

Ayalasomayajula Bhavani Sankara Shastry .....PETITIONER AND Smt. Ayalasomayajula Lakshmi Narasamma (died)

Ayyalasomayajula Kanaka Rama Sarma and others .....RESPONDENTS CRP No. 5836 of 2017 Between:

Ayalasomayajula Bhavani Sankara Shastry .....PETITIONER AND Smt. Ayalasomayajula Lakshmi Narasamma (died)

Ayyalasomayajula Kanaka Rama Sarma and others .....RESPONDENTS ! Counsel for the Appellant/ : Sri Sunil H. Ganu, Senior Advocate, Petitioner Assisted by and for M. Chalapathi Rao Counsel for the Respondents : Sri V. R. N. Prashanth Gist :

> Head Note:

? Cases Referred:

1. (1995)2SCC543 2. (1980)2SCC247 3. AIR 2007SC218

4. 2022SCCOnLine SC1307

5. (2024)3SCC705 6. (2020)6SCC387

7. (2003)10 SCC310

8. 2025SCCOnLine SC877

9. AIR 2004Mad 529

10.(2023)9SCC734

11.(2021)11 SCC277

12.AIR 1956SC593 13.(2006)4SCC385 14.(2007)6SCC167

15.2006SCCOnLine AP 123

16.(2012)2SCC300 17.(2008)5SCC117 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAVI NATH TILHARI &

THE HON’BL SRI JUSTICE MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM A. S. No. 80 of 2018 &

C. R. P. Nos. 3813, 5818 and 5836 of 2017 COMMON JUDGMENT: (per Hon’ble Sri Justice Ravi Nath Tilhari)

Heard Sri Sunil H. Ganu, Senior Advocate, assisted by and for M.

Chalapathi Rao, learned counsel for the appellant/petitioner and Sri V. R. N.

Prashanth, learned counsel for the respondents.

I. Facts:

(A). A. S. No.80 of 2018:

2. This Appeal under Section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure (in short ‘CPC’) has been filed by the appellant/plaintiff in O. S. No. 94 of 2010 in the Court of X Additional District and Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam District at Anakapalle, challenging the dismissal of the said suit, vide judgment and decree dated 22.11.2017.

3. O. S. No. 94 of 2010 was filed by Ayalasomayajula Bhavani Sankara Shastry for partition of immovable properties in the plaint schedule, Item Nos. I to IV into 5 equal shares; for partition of Item Nos. V and VI