2025 INSC 1267 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No……….. OF 2025 (Arising out of SLP (C) No. 26848-26849/2018)

ANNAMALAI …APPELLANT (S)

VERSUS VASANTHI AND OTHERS …RESPONDENT(S)

J U D G M E N T

MANOJ MISRA, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. These two appeal(s) arise from two suits, namely, O.S. No. 73 of 2010, which was instituted by the appellant (Annamalai) against Saraswathi (for short D-1), Dharmalingam (for short D-2) and inter-alia Vasanthi (for short D-3), , for specific Signature Not Verified Digitally signed by performance of agreement for sale dated 08.01.2010, KAVITA PAHUJA Date: 2025.10.29

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and O.S. No. 32 of 2011 (renumbered O.S. No. 60 of

2012), which was instituted by Vasanthi (first respondent) against the appellant (Annamalai) for declaration as well as injunction qua the property which was subject matter of the sale agreement. Trial court consolidated the two suits and decided them by a common judgment, whereby O.S. No. 73 of 2010 was dismissed and O.S. No. 60 of 2012 (old O.S. No. 32 of 2011) was decreed. Aggrieved therewith, the appellant filed two first appeal(s). The first appellate court vide common judgment