HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA C.C.C.A. No. 40 OF 2022 AND CROSS OBJECTIONS NO. 27 OF 2022

J U D G M E N T :

C.C.C.A.No. 40 of 2022 was filed by the 1^st defendant in O.S.No. 839 of 2014 on the file of the XIV Additional Chief Judge (FTC), City Civil Courts at Hyderabad. The said suit was filed by plaintiff – the 1st respondent herein for partition of suit schedule properties.

2. Parties herein are referred to as they are arrayed in the suit, for convenience.

3. Plaintiff and defendants 1 to 3 are sons and daughters of late Sri P. Ram Gopal Rao and Smt. P. Laxmamma. It is the case of plaintiff that on 04.03.1974, he purchased house property bearing No. 1-7-629/93, admeasuring 233 square yards at Zamisthanpur, Ramnagar, Hyderabad for a sale consideration of Rs.4,000/- from one Smt. Gandla Bharathi Bai in the name of his mother and got construed ground and first floor and residing therein. On 27.03.1985, he purchased another schedule property bearing H.No. 1-7-1002/34/A admeasuring 204 sq. yards at Ramnagar, Hyderabad (‘A’ Schedule property) from G.S. Srinivasa Rao for a sale consideration of Rs.5,000/- in the name of his father; at the time of purchase it was an open plot and th