Judgment

Raveendran, J.—These civil appeals by special leave are filed against the judgment of the Karnataka High Court dated 24.9.1998 in R.S.A. No. 233/1996 and order dated 10.4.2001 in R.P. No. 745 of 2000.

1.1) The first respondent herein filed O.S. No. 91/1989 against Venkatappa (of whom appellants 1 to 3 and respondents 2 and 3 are the legal heirs) and Military Karigowda (of whom respondents 4(a) to 4(h) are the legal heirs) in O.S. No. 91 of 1985 on the file of the learned Munsiff, Kanakapura, for a declaration that he was the absolute owner of the suit property and for a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from interfering with his possession and enjoyment of the suit property (site measuring 8 guntas in Khata No. 3458 being Southern portion of Survey No. 622/2, situated at Khalaknagar Road, Khalaknagar, Kanakapura Town, Bangalore district, bounded on the East by Municipal drain and conservancy road, West by houses of Sheriff Khan and house of Mohammed Sabu and Syed Ahmed, North by vacant plot of Rajashekhar and South by Khalaknagar Road). The trial court decreed the said suit, in part, by judgment and decree dated 11.12.1991 declaring the plaintiff to be the owne