ORAL JUDGMENT

RFA No.1842/2024 and RFA No.1866/2024 are filed by defendant Nos.2, 3, 4 and 5 challenging the preliminary decree drawn in O.S.No.9695/2015 on the file of the LVIII Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge, Bengaluru City (CCH-59), while RFA No.1847/2024 and RFA No.1872/2024 are filed by defendant Nos.1 to 3 and defendant No.5 questioning the final decree drawn in FDP No.64/2022 on the file of LVIII Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge, Bengaluru City (CCH No.59).

2. For the sake of brevity, the ranks of the parties are referred as they are ranked in OS.No.9695/2015.

3. The genealogical tree of the plaintiffs and defendant Nos.1 to 3 reads as under;

4. The children of late R.Williams i.e., W.Shivashankar and W.Mahesh Kumar, who are the plaintiffs, have filed a suit in O.S.No.9695/2015 admitting that their mother Lakshmi - second wife of R.Williams and that all the suit schedule properties are self acquired properties of their father - R.Williams. The plaintiffs also specifically pleaded that item No.3 though purchased in the name of defendant No.2 is the absolute property of their father R.Williams and hence, they have filed a partition suit alleging that despit