IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Harpat (deceased through LRs) ...Appellants Versus Boota Singh and others ...Respondents Reserved on 20.11.2025 Date of decision: 28.11.2025 Uploaded on 28.11.2025 CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA Argued by: Mr. Ashok Kumar Verma, Advocate for the appellants.

Mr. Rahul Rathore, Advocate for respondents No.1 to 3.

Mr. Gaurav Garg, AAG, Haryana.

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DEEPAK GUPTA, J.

The present Regular Second Appeal has been filed by defend-

ant No.4 – the allo,ee Harpat Singh, assailing the concurrent findings re- corded by the Courts below, whereby the suit ins/tuted by the plain/ffs – Boota Singh and the legal representa/ves of Karam Singh (respondents N: 1 to 3 herein), seeking declara/on of ownership and recovery of possession of suit land measuring 24 kanals situated in village Gidder Khera, District Sirsa, was decreed by the trial Court on 24.09.1994 and affirmed by the First Appellate Court on 23.10.1998.

2. For convenience, the par/es shall be referred to by their posi- /ons before the Trial Court. The trial Court record has been requisi/oned and examined.

3. Background Facts: Upon perusal of the record, it emerges that the surplus-area c