IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Punjab Wakf Board . . . . Appellants Vs.

Sunder Lal Gupta (since deceased) thr LRs . . . . Respondents ****

Reserved on: 02.04.2026 Pronounced on: 06.04.2026 Pronounced fully/opera5ve part: Fully ****

CORAM: HON’BLE MR JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA Argued by:- Mr. Gulam Nabi Malik, Advocate for the appellant.

Mr. Anish Se$a, Advocate for the respondent.

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DEEPAK GUPTA, J.

The present second appeal arises out of a suit for possession ins$tuted by the plain$ff, which was ini$ally decreed by the learned trial Court vide judgment & decree dated 25.01.1992. However, the said decree did not sustain, as the appeal preferred by the defendant Sunder Lal Gupta (now represented through his legal representa(cid:18)ves), came to be allowed by the learned first Appellate Court on 12.01.1995, resul$ng in reversal of the findings recorded by the trial Court and consequent dismissal of the suit.

2. Aggrieved thereby, the plain$ff has approached this Court by way of the present second appeal.

3. The trial Court record, as available on the Digital Management Sys- tem (DMS), has been carefully perused. For the sake of clarity and to avoid any confusion, the par$e