IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH ****

CM-14509 & 14510-C-2025 in/and RSA-3944-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision: 19.02.2026 Hans Raj . . . . Appellant Vs.

Meena Bhanot and others . . . . Respondents ****

CORAM: HON’BLE MR JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA ****

Present: - Mr. Ashish Tewatia, Advocate, for the appellant.

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DEEPAK GUPTA, J.

The suit for declaration and permanent injunction filed by plaintiff Sukh Ram (proforma respondent No.8 herein) was decreed by the learned trial Court vide judgment and decree dated 03.03.2012, whereby the said plaintiff along with proforma defendants No.11 to 19 including the present appellant (defendant No.12 Hans Raj) were held to be owners in possession to the extent of ½ share in the suit property. The trial Court further declared that defendants No.1 to 10 had no right, title or interest therein. The sale deed dated 15.12.1989 executed in favour of defendant No.1 and the subsequent transfers emanating therefrom, insofar as they related to the share of Roop Ram inherited by the plaintiff and proforma defendants, were also declared null, illegal and void.

2. Aggrieved against the aforesaid judgment, defendants No.1, 3, 4 and 7 to 10 preferred an ap