IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on : 16.09.2025 Pronounced on : 22.09.2025 Malkiat Kaur and Others ... Appellants Versus Mukhtiar Kaur and Others ... Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE ALKA SARIN Present : Mr. Nakul Sharma, Advocate for the appellants.

ALKA SARIN, J.

1. The present appeal has been preferred by the plaintiff-appellants challenging the concurrent findings returned by the Trial vide judgment and decree dated 02.08.2017 and by the First Appellate Court vide judgment and decree dated 15.07.2019.

2. The brief facts relevant to the present lis are that the plaintiff- appellants herein filed a suit for declaration. It was averred in the plaint that the plaintiff-appellants are mortgagees and that the mortgagors had failed to redeem the land for the last more than 30 years and now the right of redemption stood extinguished on account of lapse of time and the plaintiff- appellants were entitled to be declared as owners of the said land. It was further averred that the defendant-respondents had succeeded in getting the sanction of inheritance vide mutation Nos.10571 and 10572 in their favour which was totally illegal and liable to be quashed