IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Judgment reserved on :04.11.2025 Judgment pronounced on 30.01.2026 CHATTAR SINGH (SINCE DECEASED) THROUGH LRS &

OTHERS ... APPELLANTS VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA & OTHERS ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PARMOD GOYAL Present: Mr. Vijay Kumar Jindal, Senior Advocate with Mr. Abhishek Shukla, Advocate and Mr. Aditya Sharma, Advocate for the appellants.

Mr. Abhinav Mahant, AAG, Haryana.

Mr. Ranjit Singh Ghuman, Advocate and Mr. Chand Ram Narwal, Advocate for respondent Nos. 2 to 17.

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P ARMOD GOYAL , J.

The plaintiffs-appellants are aggrieved by the impugned judgment and decree dated 13.12.1991 passed by the learned Additional District Judge-I, Jind, whereby the judgment and decree dated 29.04.1991 passed by the learned Sub Judge, Ist Class, Narwana by which the suit for declaration filed by the plaintiffs-appellants had been decreed was set aside.

2. The plaintiffs in their suit for declaration claimed themselves to be owners in possession of the suit land. It was asserted that the father of plaintiff-appellant Nos. 1 and 2 was a big landowner and vide order dated 21.08.1956, some of his land was declared surplus under the PEPSU