DURGA DAS Vs. NAUBAT SINGH AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Counsel for the appellant and perused the record.

(2.) THE plaintiff appellant claiming himself to be the owner of land of Khasra No. 106 situated at village Sirsa Bada, Pergana Marhara, Tehsil and District Etah, is said to have executed a conditional sale deed in favour of Bhagwan Das and Nathu Ram on 4.6.1963. As per condition of the sale deed, Bhagwan Das on 30.12.1966 executed sale deed of 1/2 share in favour of the plaintiff appellant in which name of defendant No. 3 - Chob Singh was also entered who it appears executed a sale deed of 1/2 share (1/4th of the entire land) in favour of defendant Nos. 1 and 2 on 4.12.1974. The plaintiff appellant claims that he had no knowledge of this sale deed till February 1982.

(3.) BOTH the Courts below have recorded concurrent findings of fact against the plaintiff appellant and have also held that original suit No. 210 of 1983, Durga Das v. Naubat and Ors. was beyond time and suffered from latches. The courts below disbelieved case of the plaintiff that he had no knowledge of the sale deed from 4.12.1974 to February 1982. The findings recorded by the Courts below are based on appreciation of oral and documentary evidence on record.