REPORTABLE

2025 INSC 517 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO(S)._______________ OF 2025 [@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO(S). 4812 OF 2023]

MANJUNATH TIRAKAPPA MALAGI AND ANR …APPELLANT(S)

Versus GURUSIDDAPPA TIRAKAPPA MALAGI (DEAD THROUGH LRS) …RESPONDENT(S)

J U D G M E N T SUDHANSHU DHULIA, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The present appeal arises out of pure civil proceedings initiated at the hands of the present appellants in the year 2003. The appellants filed a suit for declaring a compromise decree entered into between the respondents (defendants) as null and void, and not binding on the appellants. Additionally, the appellants also sought partition of a certain share in the Signature Not Verified ancestral property, which was in the possession of the Digitally signed by Jayant Kumar Arora Date: 2025.04.21 Reason:

defendants. The trial court dismissed the suit of the appellants vide order dated 02.03.2007. Thereafter, the appellants filed the first appeal before the High Court, which has also been dismissed by the impugned order dated 23.09.2022.

3. Since the present matter concerns various suits, we would like to state the facts of the matter in s