IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Judgment reserved on 12.11.2025 Judgment pronounced on 30.01.2026 STATE OF HARYANA ... APPELLANT VERSUS CHANDER BHAN ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PARMOD GOYAL Present: Mr. Abhinav Mahant, AAG, Haryana.

Mr. Nischal Chetanya Manchanda, Advocate for the respondents.

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PARMOD GOYAL, J.

1. The State of Haryana, being aggrieved by the judgment and decree dated 07.02.1992 passed by the learned Additional Senior Sub Judge, Bahadurgarh, and the judgment and decree dated 15.09.1994 passed by the learned Additional District Judge, Rohtak, has filed the present Regular Second Appeal. Vide judgment and decree dated 07.02.1992, the suit filed by the plaintiff Chander Bhan for declaration and permanent injunction was decreed, and the first appeal preferred by the appellant–State was dismissed.

2. The gist of the facts, on the basis of which the plaintiff claimed declaration and permanent injunction, is that the plaintiff and one Daya Kaur, widow of Sukh Lal, were owners in possession of agricultural land fully described in the plaint. The Collector, Jhajjar, vide order dated 23.10.1959, had declared 4 standard acres and 12½ units of