IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision 09.02.2026 DHIRA ALIAS DHIRA SINGH ... APPELLANTS VERSUS GURDEV SINGH (DECEASED) THROUGH HIS LRS AND ORS.

...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PARMOD GOYAL Present: Mr. Rajesh Punj, Advocate, Mr. Sahaj Punj, Advocate and Ms. Arash Deep Kaur, Advocate for the appellant.

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PARMOD GOYAL, J. (ORAL)

1. The plaintiff-appellant is aggrieved by the judgment and decree dated 18.12.2025 passed by the learned Additional District Judge, Ludhiana, whereby the appeal preferred by the respondent-defendant No. 2 was accepted and the judgment and decree dated 06.12.2019 passed by the learned Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division), Samrala whereby the suit preferred by the plaintiff-appellant for declaration and possession was decreed, was set aside.

2. The simple case of the plaintiff was that the suit property in the hands of his father, i.e. defendant No. 1 Gurdev Singh, was joint Hindu family ancestral coparcenary property and that the plaintiff-appellant had a birthright therein. However, his father-defendant No. 1, had wrongly transferred the said land in favour of defendant No. 2 without there being any legal necessi