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IN THE COURT OF THE PRINCIPAL SENIOR CIVIL JUDGE AT NIZAMABAD
Present: Sri N. Srikanth Babu, Prl. Senior Civil Judge, Nizamabad.
Dated this the 27th day of March, 2025.
OS No. 5 of 2025
(Old OS No.6 of 2015 of PDM Court)
Between:-
1.S. Shiva Reddy S/o Late Laxma Reddy, Aged: 76 years, Occ: Agriculture, R/o Mittapally village, Dichpally mandal, Nizamabad District presently residing at H.No.MIG 1-0, New Housing Board colony, Kanteshwar, Nizamabad (Died per Lr’s)
2.S. Manohar Reddy S/o Late S. Shiva Reddy, Aged: 57 years, Occ: Software Engineer, R/o 4955 Shelbourne Drive Cumming, GA30041, USA, temporarily came down to H.No.MIG11-1-70, New Housing Board colony, Kanteshwar, Nizamabad.
3.Podduturi Suvarna W/o P. Prabaker Reddy (D/o Late S. Shiva Reddy), Aged: 63 years, Occ: Household, R/o. H.No.6-7-36, Subash Nagar, Nizamabad.
4.Almawar Vanaja W/o A. Mohan Reddy (D/o S. Shiva Reddy) Aged: 56 years, Occ: House hold, R/o MIG-1 H.No.11-1-69, New Housing Board colony, Kanteshwar, Nizamabad.
Smt. A. Sudha Rani W/o Manoj Kumar Reddy, Aged: 48 years, Occ: House hold, R/o Flat No.108, Sai Tarangini Apartments, Road No.4, KCR colony, Bachupally, Hyderabad-90.
...Plaintiffs
AND
1. Voddem Narsaiah S/o Bhoomanna, Aged: 42 years, Occ: Agriculture, R/o Mittapally village, Dichpally mandal, Nizamabad District.
2. Voddem Narsaiah S/o Linganna, Aged: 45 years, Occ: Agriculture, R/o Mittapally village, Dichpally mandal, Nizamabad District.
3. Voddem Nadipi Gangaram S/o Ramulu, Aged: 45 years, Occ: Agriculture, R/o Mittapally village, Dichpally mandal, Nizamabad District.
4. Voddem Narsaiah S/o Poshetty, Aged: 43 years, Occ: Agriculture, R/o Mittapally village, Dichpally mandal, Nizamabad District.
...Defendants
This suit is coming before me for final hearing in the presence of Sri K. Kishore Reddy, Counsel for Plaintiffs and Sri N. Subash Reddy, Counsel for Defendants No.1 to 3 and Defendant No.4 was set exparte and the matter having stood over for consideration, till this day, this court delivered the following:- 2 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015)
:: J U D G M E N T ::
This suit is filed under Order VII rule 1 & 2 R/w Section 26 of CPC praying this
Court to declare the Plaintiff as absolute owner of suit schedule property and to direct the Defendants to deliver the vacant possession of suit schedule property to
Plaintiff.
The brief averments of plaint are:
2.The father of Plaintiff No.1/S. Laxma Reddy was absolute owner of vast ancestral properties situated at Mittapally village, Dichpally mandal and he died in the year 1950, leaving his three sons namely S. Ganga Reddy, S. Chinna Reddy and
S.Shiva Reddy (Plaintiff No.1) as his successors and legal heirs. After the death of
Laxma Reddy, the Plaintiff No.1 along with his two brothers Ganga Reddy and Chinna
Reddy partitioned all their ancestral properties including agricultural lands on 10.08.1993, including lands to an extent of Ac.2-15 ¼ gts., in Sy.No.274/A and land to an extent of Ac.4-31 gts., in Sy.No.274/EE, situated at Mittapally village. In the above said partition, Plaintiff No.1 and his two brothers got land to an extent of Ac.0-31 ¾ gts., each in Sy.No.274/A and land to an extent of Ac.1-23½ gts., each in Sy.No.274/EE, towards their respective shares along with other lands. The Plaintiff No.1 immediately after partition has purchased the share of his elder brother Chinna
Reddy including the land to an extent of Ac.0-31 ¾ gts., in Sy. No.274/A and land to an extent of Ac.1-23 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/EE. After purchase, the Plaintiff No.1 became owner and possessor of land to an extent of Ac.1-23 ½ gts, in Sy.No.274/A and land to an extent of Ac.3-07 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/EE along with other lands and his name was also mutated in Revenue records with regard to the above said properties.
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3.The Plaintiff No.1, subsequently also purchased the share of lands allotted to his another brother Gangareddy including the land to an extent of Ac.0-31¾ gts., in
Sy.No.274/A and land to an extent of Ac.1-23½ gts., in Sy.No.274/EE along with other allotted lands, situated at Mittapally village from the Sons of Gangareddy i.e., Srinivas
Reddy and S. Janardhan Reddy, under a un-Registered Sale Deed dated 21.03.1999.
After purchase, the Plaintiff No.1 has got validated the said Sale Deed under the provisions of The Andhra Pradesh Record of Rights in Land Act,before MRO,
Dichpally, by paying deficit stamp duty and registration fee. After validation of the above said Sale Deed, the lands purchased under the above said Sale Deed were mutated on to the name of Plaintiff No.1 in Revenue records and accordingly
Revenue authorities have issued Pattedar Pass book and Title deed in favour fo
Plaintiff No.1. The Plaintiff No.1 after purchase of the lands from his brother became owner of lands to an extent of Ac.2-15 ¼ gts., in Sy.No.274/A and land to an extent of
Ac.4-31 gts., in Sy.No.274/EE situated at Mittapally village of Dichpally mandal. The
Plaintiff No.1 out of above said two survey numbers has sold land to an extent of
Ac.1-23 ½ gts., in Sy.No.274/A to Musku Kavya, by way of Registered Sale Deed in the year 2009 and also sold land to an extent of Ac.3-07 ½ gts., situated at Mittapally village of Dichpally to one Musku Latha under a Registered Sale Deed in the year 2009. After alienations of the above said properties, the Plaintiff No.1 has retained the land to an extent of Ac.0-31¾ gts., in Sy.No.274/A and land to an extent of Ac.1- 23½ gts., in Sy. No.274/EE (which is hereinafter called as suit schedule property).
4.The Plaintiff No.1 worked as Government Teacher and after his retirement he is residing at Nizamabad and got cultivated his lands through his farm servants. But 4 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015) subsequently due to non availability of water and farm servants, the cultivation could not be done and the lands were kept fallow from the year 2012. The Defendants and other adjacent cultivators, by taking the advantage that the lands were kept fallow, tried to illegally occupy and encroach to the suit lands by removing boundary marks of schedule lands. On that, the Plaintiff No.1 has filed a Petition before Survey and
Land records, to survey and demarcate the suit lands and accordingly the survey officials have conducted survey and demarcated the suit lands by putting boundary stones around the suit lands by conducting panchanama. Thereafter, the Defendants by taking advantage of the absence of Plaintiff No.1, have illegally occupied the suit lands on 16.11.2022 by removing the boundary stones. The Plaintiff No.1 after getting knowledge as the illegal encroachment, questioned the Defendants about their illegal acts, requested them to hand over the possession of suit lands but the
Defendants replied that the suit lands are part of their lands and Plaintiff No.1 has no right over them. The Plaintiff No.1 has also made a complaint to Police against the
Defendants about their illegal encroachment and Police, Dichpally have registered
FIR against him, but they managed the Police from taking further action. When the
Police have failed to take action, the Plaintiff No.1 has filed application in Prajavani
before District Collector and the District Collector directed Tahsildar, Dichpally to
take action but they expressed their in ability and advised the Plaintiff No.1 to approach Civil Court. The Plaintiff No.1 as a last attempt on 24.12.2014 approached the Defendants and requested them to vacate the suit land and deliver him the possession. But they denied the title of Plaintiff No.1 and refused to deliver the possession. As such the Plaintiff No.1 having no other remedy filed the present suit.
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On the other hand, the Defendant No.1 has filed Written Statement and the same was adopted by Defendants No.2 and 3. The brief averments of written statement are :
5.The Defendants denied the allegations made by the Plaintiff No.1. The
Defendants are not having knowledge about the sale of land to Musku Kavya and so also to Musuku Latha. The Plaintiff No.1 at present is not having any land in Sy.
Nos.274/A and 274/EE. The alleged panchanama is not authentic document and it is created one by the Plaintiff No.1 for the purpose of the present suit. All the
Defendants were adjacent land owners to Plaintiff No.1 and they are cultivating their lands from time immemorial in various sub survey numbers of Sy.No.94 and all the
Defendants have acquired the lands by way of inheritance. The Plaintiff No.1 is not the owner of suit land and he was never in possession of suit land and he is no way concerned with it. The title deed of Plaintiff No.1 does not show ownership of
Plaintiff and it is not showing mole and sign of MRO, Dichpally. The pahanies filed by the Plaintiff No.1 are created one. The Plaintiff No.1 himself is illegally trying to occupy the land of Defendants and as a part of that filed the present suit. The
Defendants have also filed additional written statement avering that the Plaintiffs have not impleaded all the necessary parties in the suit, after death of original
Plaintiff and the suit is liable to be dismissed for non joinder of necessary parties.
Hence, prayed to dismiss the suit.
6.Basing on the pleadings of the both parties, this Court has framed the following issues for trial.
(i).Whether the Plaintiff is owner of the suit schedule property ?
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(ii).Whether the Plaintiff is entitled for recovery of possession of suit land from the Defendants as prayed for ?
(iii).To what result?
7.During the course of trial, Plaintiff No.1 himself got examined as PW1 and got marked Ex.A1 to A9 (Exs.10 to 13 were marked through Pws.2 and 3). The Plaintiffs in support of their case got examined one Neeradi Sanjeev Kumar (VRO) and Smt.
Podduturi Suvarna as PW2 and PW3 respectively and through them Exs.A10 to A13 are marked. The Defendants in support of their case examined Defendant No.3 as
DW1 and got marked Exs.B1 and B2. The Defendants in support of their case examined one Komiri Santhosh as DW2.
During pendency of suit, original Plaintiff died and his legal heirs i.e., Plaintiff
Nos.2 to 5 are brought on record.
Heard both sides. The counsel for Defendants filed written arguments.
Issue No. (i & ii):
(i)Whether the Plaintiff is owner of the suit schedule property ?
(ii) Whether the Plaintiff is entitled for recovery of possession of suit land from the Defendants as prayed for ?
As original Plaintiff died during pendency of suit, wherever Plaintiff is referred it is to be read as Plaintiff No.1.
8.It is the case of the Plaintiff that after death of his father, he along with his two brothers i.e., S. Ganga Reddy and Chinna Reddy, got partitioned all properties including agricultural lands on 10.08.1993, which also includes land in Sy.No.274/A to an extent of Ac.2-15¼ gts., and land in Sy.No.274/EE to an extent of Ac.4-31 gts. In 7 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015) the said partition each of them got land to an extent of Ac.0-31¾ gts., in Sy.No.274/A and Ac.1-23½ gts., in Sy.No.274/EE. After that the Plaintiff purchased the lands of his two brothers i.e., Chinna Reddy and that of Gangareddy from his sons i.e., Srinivas
Reddy and Janardhan Reddy and Plaintiff became the owner of land in Sy.No.274/A to an extent of Ac.2-15¼ gts., and land in Sy.No.274/EE to an extent of Ac.4-31 gts.
Later Plaintiff sold Ac.1-23 gts., in Sy.No.274/A to Musuku Kavya in the year 2009 and also sold Ac.3-07 ½ gts., in Sy.No.274/EE to Musuku Latha in the year 2009. The
Plaintiff is the owner of remaining land in Sy. Nos.274/A and 274/EE, which is suit schedule property. The Defendants, who are neibouring land owners, by taking advantage of absence of Plaintiff have encroached and occupied the land of Plaintiff on 16.11.2012.
9.The Plaintiff in support of his case examined himself as PW1. The PW1 in lieu of his chief examination filed chief examination affidavit, which is reiteration of contents of Plaint. The PW1 in support of his case got marked Ex.A1 to A9. Ex.A1 is the proceeding issued by MRO, Dichpally dated 14.03.2007, Ex.A2 is the original ROR title deed book, Ex.A3 is the certified copy of panchanama conducted by the surveyor, Ex.A4 is the office copy of complaint filed before police, Ex.A5 is the attested copy of FIR, Ex.A6 is the office copy of petition filed before the District
Collector, Nizamabad, Ex.A7 and Ex.A8 are the certified copies of pahanies for the year 1994-95, 2011-12 respectively and Ex.A9 is the certified copy of pahani for the fasli year 1422 dated 21.11.2012. PW1 during his cross examination admitted that he sold the property to Musuku Latha and Kavya and also admitted that he has sold to an extent of Ac.3-07 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/EE to Musuku Latha. He denied the 8 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015) suggestion that he has sold land to an extent Ac.1-23 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/EE to
Musuku Kavya. PW1 admitted that in Ex.A3 there is no mention about extent of land existing in Sy.Nos.271 and 274. He also admitted that in Ex.A4/complaint sent to
Superintendent of Police, there is no mention about Sy.No.274/EE. He also admitted that there is a difference in mention of extent in report lodged by him before P.S
Dichpally vide Ex.A5. He denied the suggestion that he has sold total extent of his property in Sy.Nos.274/A and 274/EE and due to revenue authorities mistake, passbook was showing to an extent of Ac.0-31¼ gts., in Sy.No.274/A and to an extent of Ac.1-23 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/EE.
10.The Plaintiff in support of his case examined one Neeradi Sanjeev Kumar as
Pw2. The evidence of PW2 shows that presently he is working as VRO at Nagepoor village of Balkonda mandal from 2019 to till today (date of evidence). Previously he worked as VRO of Mittapalli village from 2011 to 2015. He received memo from
Assistant Director, Survey and Land Records, Nizamabad on 28.06.2012 and in the said memo he was directed to be present on 04.07.2012 at Sy.Nos.271 and 274 for survey of land of one Shiva Reddy at Mittapalli village. The said memo contains his signature with regard to acknowledgment of receipt of memo, which is Ex.A10. On 04.07.2012 he went to the spot i.e., Sy. Nos.271 and 274 and shown all records pertains to Sy. Nos.271 and 274 and basing on that surveyor has surveyed the lands in his presence and shown the boundaries. Ex.A11 is his signature on Ex.A3/ panchanama. He during his cross examination admitted that panchas to the panchanama are illiterates. PW2 admitted that as per Ex.A3 boundaries are fixed to 9 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015) total extent of survey numbers 271 and 274, but it is not showing that boundaries are fixed to sub division numbers of above said survey numbers.
11.One Podduturi Suvarna who is Plaintiff No.3 was examined as PW3. The evidence of PW3 shows his father/Plaintiff filed the above suit for Declaration of Title and Recovery of Possession of suit lands against the Defendants. Her father during his life time has sold land to Musuku Kavya under Registered Sale Deed in year 2009 and land to Musuku Latha in the year 2009 by way Registered Sale Deed and retained the suit schedule property. Ex.A12 is the certified copy of Registered Sale Deed vide doc. No.3838 of 2009 dated 12.10.2009. Ex.A13 is the certified copy of Registered
Sale Deed vide doc. No.3837 of 2009 dated 12.10.2009. She during her cross examination stated that her father was survived with one son/Manohar Reddy, three daughters i.e., she, Vasantha and Vanaja. PW3 admitted that Vasantha has a daughter
Sudha. She denied the suggestion that Shiva Reddy sold the suit property including other properties to third parties. She denied the suggestion that suit is not maintainable for non joinder of necessary parties.
12.Per contra, it is the case of the Defendants that they have denied that Plaintiff is the owner of suit schedule property and that they are not having knowledge about the sale of property to Musuku Kavya and Musuku Latha. The Defendants have also denied that panchanama was conducted. The Plaintiff is not having any land in suit survey numbers. The Defendants are the adjacent owners of Plaintiff and they are cultivating the lands since long time and the Plaintiff has filed the present suit to occupy the lands of Defendants.
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13.The Defendants in support of their case, examined Defendant No.3 as DW1.
The DW1 in lieu of chief examination filed the chief examination affidavit, which is reiteration of contents of Written statement. He further mentioned that Plaintiff has filed false complaint before P.S Dichpally and Police have filed charge sheet and the same was numbered as CC No.561 of 2014 and the learned II-Addl. JFCM, Nizamabad after trial as acquitted the Defendants on 04.02.2019. The DW1 in support of their their case got marked Exs.B1 and B2. Ex.B1 is certified copy of phanies (5 in number).
Ex.B2 is the certified copy of Judgment in CC No.561 of 2014 on the file of II-Addl.
JFCM, Nizamabad. He during his cross examination stated that he has not seen the documents filed by the Plaintiff in the suit. As he is illiterate he cannot say his survey number and that of suit survey number. Further stated that the plaintiff is not having land near to his property. He denied the suggestion that towards southern side of his property, is the land of the Plaintiff. He denied the suggestion in the absence of
Plaintiff, they have occupied the suit property. He also denied the suggestion that
Mandal Surveyor conducted survey in their presence. He denied the suggestion that
Plaintiff has never occupied their property as mentioned in their chief affidavit.
Further stated that they have not given any complaint before Police against Plaintiff.
14.The Defendants in support of their case examined one Komiri Santhosh as
DW2. The evidence of DW2 shows that he is the adjacent land owner of Defendants lands situated at Mittapalli village of Dichpally mandal. Presently the Plaintiff has no land in Sy.No.274 of Mittapalli village and he has sold his land to third parties and now they are in possession of the property. The Plaintiff after sale of his land, is trying to grab the land of Defendants by suppressing the sale of his land. The Plaintiff is no 11 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015) way concerned the land of Defendants, who are having land in Sy. No.94. The Plaintiff has never visited the land of Defendants and they have never threatened the Plaintiff with dire consequences. He during his cross examination stated that Plaintiff has filed the suit against Gangadhar. He do not know the suit survey number and survey number of Defendants. He do not know about the extent of land owned by Plaintiff in suit survey number. He cannot say towards which side of suit schedule property the
Defendants are having land. He was present when the Defendants have occupied the schedule property.
15.The present suit is filed to declare the Plaintiffs as owner of suit schedule property. The burden lies on the Plaintiff to show that he is the owner of suit schedule property. The Plaintiff is stating that he along with his brothers has partitioned the properties including the lands in suit survey numbers and other properties each of them got Ac.0-31¾ gts., in Sy.No.274/A and Ac.1-23½ gts., in Sy.
No.274/EE. The Plaintiff in support of his case got marked Ex.A7, which shows that along with Plaintiff his brother Ganga Reddy is also having land in Sy.No.274/A and 274/EE. The case of the Plaintiff is that after partition he has purchased the shares of his two brothers i.e., the share of Chinna Reddy and the share of Ganga Reddy from his sons Srinivas Reddy and Janardhan Reddy. The case of the Plaintiff is that at first he has purchased the property from Chinna Reddy and became the owner of land to extent of Ac.1-23 ½ in Sy.No.274/A and Ac.3-07 ½ gts., in Sy.No.274/EE. The perusal of Ex.A7, which is of the year 1994-95 reflects that the Plaintiff is having land to an extent of Ac.1-23 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/A and land to an extent of Ac.3-07½ gts., in Sy.
No.274/EE, the pahani also reflects at column No.15 the ROR proceedings as 12 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015)
ROR/235/89. The case of the Plaintiff is that later he has purchased the property of
Ganga Reddy from his sons i.e., Srinivas Reddy and Janardhan Reddy on 21.03.1999 by way of unregistered Sale Deed. The Plaintiff is stating that after purchase in the year 2007, he has made application for validation said unregistered Sale Deed to MRO,
Dichpally and after collecting stamp duty the MRO, Dichpally has issued 13-B
Certificate. The Plaintiff in support of his case, got marked Ex.A1, which is 13-B certificate, which shows that the Plaintiff has made application under 5A of The
Andhra Pradesh Record of Rights in Land Act and after enquiry it was revealed that
Plaintiff has purchased land to an extent of Ac.0-31 ¾ gts., in Sy.No.274/A and land to an extent of Ac.1-23½ gts., in Sy.No.274/EE including land in other survey numbers and he had paid the stamp duty. The Plaintiff also filed 13-C Namuna, wherein the document dated 23.09.1999 is mentioned and suit survey numbers were shown and that he has purchased the property from Srinivas Reddy and Janardhan Reddy. The
Plaintiff in support of his case got marked Ex.A2, which is ROR title deed. The perusal of Ex.A2 shows that there are entries pertaining to suit schedule property and also entries as to that Plaintiff land to extent of Ac.1-23 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/A and land to extent of Ac.3-07½ gts., in Sy. No.274/EE. The Plaintiff in support of his case also got marked Ex.A8, which is certified copy of pahani for the year 2011-12, which shows the entries as to suit schedule property in the name of Plaintiff. Ex.A9 is the certified copy of pahani for the fasli year 1422(this court has marked the said Ex.A9 as pahani for the year 2012-13 but the available document is the certified copy of pahani obtained from Mee-seva) with regard to suit survey Nos.274/A and 274/1, which shows the extent as Ac.0-31 ¾ gts., and Ac.1-23 ¾ gts., and shows the name of the
Plaintiff at column Nos.12 and 13. The Plaintiff in support of his case also got marked 13 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015)
Ex.A3, which is the panchanama conducted by surveyor and the said panchanama was conducted in the presence of panchas with regard to land in Sy. Nos.271 and 274 and to which boundary stones were fixed. Ex.A4 is the complaint lodged against
Defendants before Police, Ex.A5 is the attested copy of FIR, Ex.A6 is the copy of petition submitted to District Collector, against Defendants. The case of the Plaintiff is also that after purchase of the property from his brothers, he has sold the property to an extent of Ac.1-23 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/A to one Musuku Kavya by way of Ex.A12.
The perusal of Ex.A12 shows that Plaintiff herein has sold property to an extent of
Ac.1-03 gts., in Sy.No.271/AA and land to an extent of Ac.1-23 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/A, the said document also shows as to the title deed (khata) number of the Plaintiff i.e., 243 X 11313. The perusal of Ex.A2 shows that the same number i.e., 243 X 11313. The same khata number is also seen in Ex.A7 and Ex.A8. The perusal of Ex.A13 shows that the Plaintiff has sold land to an extent of Ac.3-07 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/EE to Musuku
Latha and the Sale Deed also reflects the title deed number same as that of mentioned in Ex.A12. The case of the Defendants is that they are having land in Sy.
No.94. The Defendants in their written statement mentioned that they were adjacent land owners of Plaintiff. On one hand, the Defendants have mentioned that they were adjacent land owners of Plaintiff and at the other they have denied that the
Plaintiff is the owner of suit schedule property and he is not having any land in suit survey number. The Defendants in support of their case filed Ex.B1, which are (5) pahanies and all the said pahanies pertaining to Sy.No.94 only, which shows that the
Defendants having lands in Sy.No.94. The Plaintiff is not claiming any land in Sy.
No.94. The Defendants also filed Ex.B2, which is the Judgment in CC No.561 of 2014 passed by learned II-Addl. JFCM, Nizamabad dated 04.02.2019, which shows that the 14 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015)
Defendant No.3, one Gangadhar and Amradi Gangaram were acquitted. As stated earlier, the Plaintiff filed the suit to declare him as owner of suit Sy. Nos.274/A and 274/EE. PW1 has denied the suggestion that he has sold land to an extent of Ac.1-23 ½ gts., in Sy. No.274/EE to Musuku Kavya. He also denied the suggestion that the entries made in Ex.A2 are wrong. PW1 admitted that in Ex.A3 there is no mention of extent of land in Sy. Nos.271 and 274 and that there is no mentioned of Sy.No.274/EE in Ex.A4. The perusal of Ex.A4 shows that there is mention of Sy.No.274/EE and the perusal of Ex.A3, which is the panchanama also shows that there is no extent of land mentioned in survey numbers 271 and 274. The perusal of Ex.B2 shows that there is an observation by the Court “thus neither the oral evidence of PW1 nor the documentary evidence by way of Ex.P1 and Ex.P2 show that PW1 is in possession of land to an extent of Ac.2-30 gts., in Sy. No.274/A/AA”. The Judgment in a criminal case is not binding on Civil Court and more so the suit survey numbers in the present suit, as also admitted by Plaintiff, are different with regard to the survey numbers mentioned in Ex.A4 and that which are mentioned in Ex.A5/complaint.
16.The Plaintiff in support got examined PW2, who is the VRO, who stated that a survey was conducted pertaining to Sy. Nos.271 and 274 and he signed after survey on Ex.A3 and his signature is marked as Ex.A10. The panchanama shows that the surveyor conducted panchanama and fixed boundary stones. The panchanama is annexed with tounch map, which shows that Sy. No.94 is the neighboring survey number of Sy.No.274. DW2 during his cross examination stated that he cannot say towards which side the suit survey number of the Defendants is to suit schedule property. DW1 denied the suggestion that towards southern side of their survey 15 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015) number is the land of Plaintiff. The tounch map clearly shows that the Sy. No.274 is on
Southern side to Sy. No.94. The PW3 has only deposed as to that her father has sold the property to Musuku Kavya and Musuku Latha, which is clearly reflected by
Exs.A12 and A13. The DW2 who was examined on behalf of Defendants, who is said to be the neighboring land owner of Defendants, but no where in his chief examination it is found that in which survey number he is having land. He during his cross examination stated that he do not know suit survey number and survey number of Defendants and also anything about the extent of property owned by Plaintiff in suit survey number, which shows that the DW2 has not having knowledge as to suit survey number. The case of the Defendants is that it is the Plaintiff who is trying to grab their land and in furtherance of that he has filed the present suit and he has no land in Sy. No.274. DW1 during his cross examination stated that they have not made any complaint before police against the Plaintiff. It is also not the case of the
Defendants that they have filed suit against the Plaintiff on the allegation that he is interfering and trying to grab their land.
17.The Plaintiff is stating that he is the owner of the suit schedule property and as stated earlier, Ex.A1, Ex.A2, Ex.A7 to Ex.A9 shows that he is the owner of suit schedule property. The Defendants are not claiming any right in Sy. No.274 and their case is that of they are having land in Sy. No.94, which is the adjacent land. The
Defendants have simply denied that the Plaintiff is not the owner of the suit schedule property. But have not filed any documents in support of their contention. As discussed earlier, Exs.A12 and A13 also shows about Ex.A2. The Defendants have filed documents pertaining Sy. No.94 and they themselves have admitted that they are the 16 of 17 OS.No.5 of 2025 (Old OS 6 of 2015) neighboring land owners of Plaintiff. The Plaintiffs by way of his evidence with that of
PW2 and PW3 coupled with Exs.A1 to A13, have shown that Plaintiff No.1 is the owner of suit schedule property.
18.The plaintiff has filed the suit for Declaration of Title and also for Recovery of
Possession. Admittedly the suit lands are agricultural lands and as per the case of the
Plaintiff he has kept the lands fallow ie., without cultivation and it is a vacant land.
There are disputes between Plaintiff and Defendants and which confirms the same by way of Ex.A3, which is the panchanama conducted by the surveyor on the application made by the Plaintiff. The Plaintiff is stating that by taking advantage of the absence of the Plaintiff in the village and due to old age, the Defendants have illegally encroached and occupied the suit land by removing the boundary stones fixed by the surveyor around the suit land. The PW1 in his chief evidence affidavit has also mentioned that the Defendants have encroached into the land of Plaintiff and occupied the same by removing the boundary stones. The Defendants in their
Written Statement have only stated that there is no land for the Plaintiff there is no question of encroachment by the Defendants. The evidence of PW1 to PW3 coupled with Exs.A1, A2, A7 to A9 proves that Plaintiffs are the owners of suit schedule property. In the circumstances and forgoing reasons these issues are answered in favour of Plaintiffs.
ISSUE No.5: To what relief ?
In the result, the suit is decreed with costs as follows:
(i)declaring that the Plaintiffs No.2 to 5 are the owners of suit schedule property.
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(ii) the Defendants are directed to handover the vacant physical possession of suit schedule property to the Plaintiffs within three months from the date of Decree.
Dictated to stenographer, transcribed by him, corrected and pronounced by me in open
Court, on this the day of 27 th March, 2025.
Prl. Senior Civil Judge Nizamabad.
APPENDIX OF EVIDENCE
For Plaintiffs : For Defendants: PW1: S. Shiva ReddyDW1: Oddem Nadipi Gangadhar @ Gangaram PW2: Neeradi Sanjeev KumarDW2: Komiri Santosh PW3: Smt. Podduturi Suvarna.
Exhibits Marked
For Plaintiffs :
Ex.A1: Proceeding issued by MRO Dichpally dated 14.03.2007 Ex.A2: Original ROR title deed book Ex.A3: Certified copy of panchanama conducted by the surveyor Ex.A4: Office copy of complaint filed before police Ex.A5: Attested copy of FIR Ex.A6: Office copy of petition filed before the District Collector, Nizamabad Ex.A7: Certified copy of Pahani for the year 1994-1995 Ex.A8: Certified copy of Pahani for the year 2011-2012 Ex.A9: Certified copy of Pahani for the year 2012-2013 Ex.A10: Signature of PW2 on Memo Ex.A11: Signature of PW2 on panchanama (Ex.P3) Ex.A12: Certified copy of sale deed bearing No.3838 of 2009 dated 12.10.2009 Ex.A13: Certified copy of sale deed bearing No.3837 of 2009 dated 12.10.2009.
For Defendants :
Ex.B1: Certified copy of pahanies (5 in number) Ex.B2: Certified copy of Judgment in CC No.561 of 2014 on the file of II-Addl. JFCM, Nizamabad.
Prl. Senior Civil Judge
Nizamabad.