IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Ramesh Kumar Sharma …Appellant Versus Narender Parsad Jain …Respondent.

Reserved on: 20.01.2026 Pronounced on: 23.01.2026 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA Argued by:- Mr. Sandeep K. Sharma, Advocate For the appellant.

Mr. Adarsh Jain, Sr. Advocate with Ms. Amandeep Kaur, Advocate For the respondent.

DEEPAK GUPTA, J.

The present second appeal has been preferred by the plaintiff of the case, through her legal representative, assailing the judgment dated 29.05.1999 passed by the learned Additional District Judge, Panipat, whereby the appeal filed by defendant No.1 was allowed and the judgment and decree dated 02.02.1994 passed by the learned trial Court, decreeing the suit for declaration, were set aside.

2. For the sake of convenience and to avoid any confusion, the parties are being referred to as per their status before the trial Court. The trial Court re- cord, as available on the Digital Management System (DMS), has been carefully perused.

3. The facts giving rise to the present litigation are largely undisputed. The property in dispute was owned by one Rattan Lal Jain. He was married to Chhoti Bai, from whose wedlock no issu