IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on :-18.02.2026 Date of Pronouncement:-20.02.2026 Uploaded on:-20.2.2026 State of Haryana through Collector and another … Appellants Versus Partap Singh and another ... Respondents ****

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIRINDER AGGARWAL Argued by :-

Mr. Ved Parkash, Senior DAG, Haryana-Appellants.

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VIRINDER AGGARWAL , J .

1. The present Regular Second Appeal (‘RSA’ for short) has been instituted by the appellants-defendants/State assailing the concurrent judgments and decrees passed by the learned Courts below. By virtue of the impugned judgments and decrees, the suit filed by the respondent- plaintiff, Partap Singh, seeking a declaration to the effect that he has become owner in possession of the suit land on account of the mortgage not having been redeemed within the prescribed period of limitation, or in the alternative, that he has perfected his title thereto by way of adverse possession, has been decreed.

2. At the outset, it is apposite to notice that the appellants- defendants contested the suit by filing a comprehensive written statement, raising various preliminary objections touching upon the very maintainability of