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RSA No. 2554 of 2017
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU
DATED THIS THE 18TH DAY OF APRIL, 2023
BEFORE
THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE H.P.SANDESH
REGULAR SECOND APPEAL NO.2554 OF 2017 (INJ)
BETWEEN:
1.
SEETHAMMA,
DEAD BY HER LRs.
VENKATARAMANA,
DEAD BY HIS LEGAL HEIRS,
SMT. YASHODAMMA,
W/O RAMAKRISHNAPPA,
AGED ABOUT 71 YEARS,
R/O. SORABA ROAD, SHIRALAKOPPA,
SHIKARIPURA TALUK-577 427,
SHIVAMOGGA DISTRICT.
2.
GANGAMMA,
W/O THIPPESWAMI,
AGED ABOUT 63 YEARS,
R/AT LABOUR COLONY,
DAVANAGERE-577 001.
3.
PADMA,
D/O VENKATARAMANA,
AGED ABOUT 63 YEARS,
R/O. KTJ NAGARA,
DAVANAGERE-577 001.
4.
PARVATHAMMA,
W/O. BANGARAPPA,
AGED ABOUT 61 YEARS,
R/O. KOTIPURA, ANAVATTI,
SORABA TALUK-577 429,
SHIVAMOGGA DISTRICT.
Digitally signed
by SHARANYA T
Location: HIGH
COURT OF
KARNATAKA
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RSA No. 2554 of 2017
5.
INDUMATHI,
W/O KOLLAPPA BHARADWAJ,
AGED ABOUT 59 YEARS,
R/O ACHUTH RAO LAYOUT,
NEAR NANJAPPA HOSPITAL,
SHIVAMOGGA-577 201.
6.
MAMATHA,
W/O VENKATESH,
AGED ABOUT 53 YEARS,
R/O HALEPETE, DAVANAGERE-577 001.
7.
RANGANATHA. V
S/O. VENKATARAMANA,
AGED ABOUT 49 YEARS,
R/O KTJ NAGARA,
DAVANAGERE-577 001.
…APPELLANTS
(BY SRI UMESH MOOLIMANI, ADVOCATE FOR
SRI S.V. PRAKASH, ADVOCATE)
AND:
1.
CHANDRASHEKHARA
S/O BANGARA SHETTY,
AGED ABOUT 55 YEARS.
2.
ANANTHA,
S/O BANGARASHETTY,
AGED ABOUT 50 YEARS.
3.
SWAMY,
S/O. BANGARASHETTY,
AGED ABOUT 45 YEARS.
ALL ARE R/O TALAGUPPA VILLAGE,
SAGAR TALUK-577 401,
SHIVAMOGGA DISTRICT.
…RESPONDENTS
THIS R.S.A. IS FILED UNDER SECTION 100 OF CPC,
AGAINST THE JUDGMENT AND DECREE DATED 11.09.2017
PASSED IN R.A.NO.86/2012 ON THE FILE OF THE ADDITIONAL
SENIOR CIVIL JUDGE AND JMFC, SAGAR, DISMISSING THE
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RSA No. 2554 of 2017
APPEAL AND CONFIRMING THE JUDGMENT AND DECREE DATED
02.07.2012 PASSED IN O.S.NO.95/2009 ON THE FILE OF THE
ADDITIONAL CIVIL JUDGE AND JMFC AT SAGAR.
THIS APPEAL COMING ON FOR ADMISSION THIS DAY,
THE COURT DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING:
This matter is listed for admission today. Heard the
learned counsel for the appellants.
This appeal is filed challenging the judgment and
decree dated 11.09.2017, passed in R.A.No.86/2012, on
the file of the Additional Senior Civil Judge and JMFC,
Sagar.
The factual matrix of the case of the plaintiff
before the Trial Court while seeking the relief of permanent
injunction is that in Sy.No.79, 2 acres of land belongs to
the plaintiff. The defendant Nos.1 to 3 are the children of
Bangarashetty
and
defendant
No.4
is
the
wife
of
Bangarashetty. There was an oral partition in the year
1950 and after the partition, the husband of the plaintiff
was cultivating the property. On 01.03.1957, the plaintiff
had purchased the plaint schedule property and the same is
Streedhan and the plaintiff is in possession of the property
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as owner. The defendants are not having any right in
respect of the suit schedule property. The defendants
colluded with each other with an intention to knock off the
suit schedule property and that on 25.01.2004, they
interfered with the possession of the plaintiff and hence suit
is filed for the relief of bare injunction.
In
pursuance
of
the
suit
summons,
the
defendants appeared and filed the written statement
contending that the husband of the plaintiff and the
husband of defendant No.4 are the direct brothers and in
the year 1950, there was a partition between the husband
of the plaintiff and defendant No.4 and their brothers and
the suit survey number measuring 04-04-00 acres of land
was purchased by the plaintiff in the year 1957 and the
same is her self-acquired property. The defendants denied
the rest of the averments made in the plaint. It is the
contention of the defendants that since the date of
purchase of the said property by the plaintiff in the year
1957, the husband of defendant No.4 and the father of
defendant Nos.1 to 3 was given 02-00-00 acres of land i.e.,
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plaint schedule property out of the said 04-04-00 acres of
land in the suit survey number purchased by the plaintiff
under the said registered sale deed as tenant and the
remaining extent of 2 acres 4 guntas were given to the
seller of the said property as tenant. Since then they have
been cultivating their respective portions in the suit survey
number as tenants. Since Ganapathi Shetty filed an
application for the grant of his tenanted land in the suit
survey number, on 01.03.1974 the said property was
granted to him, the husband of defendant No.4 had been
cultivating the plaint schedule property as tenant. Since
the husband of defendant No.4 was not so intelligent, he
could not file his application to the Land Tribunal for the
grant of said property in his favour. That on 05.03.1988,
the husband of defendant No.4 died and the defendants
have continued their possession over the plaint schedule
property as tenants. Thereafter, the defendants filed Form
No.7(A) for grant of plaint schedule property in their
favour. In the month of January 2004, the plaintiff tried to
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take forcible possession of the suit schedule property from
the defendants.
Based on the pleadings of the parties, the Trial
Court framed the issues and the plaintiff examined one
witness as P.W.1 and got marked the documents at Exs.P.1
to 7. On the other hand, the defendants examined one
witness as D.W.1 and got marked the documents at
Exs.D.1 to 8. The Trial Court after considering both oral
and documentary evidence placed on record comes to the
conclusion that the documents Exs.D.1 to 8 discloses that
the defendants are in possession of the suit schedule
property and the plaintiff has not placed any material
before the Court that as on the date of filing of the suit, the
plaintiff was in possession of the suit schedule property and
dismissed the suit.
Being aggrieved by the judgment and decree of
the Trial Court, an appeal is filed in R.A.No.86/2012. The
First Appellate Court on considering the grounds urged in
the appeal memo, formula
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