ARJAN SINGH Vs. HARI SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PRAYER in this appeal is, for setting aside the judgments and decrees, passed by the Sub Judge, Ist Class, Rajpura dated 5.6.1981 and the Additional District Judge, Patiala dated 19.9.1983.

(2.) THE plaintiffs -appellants herein, filed a suit, for declaration that they were owners in possession of agricultural land measuring 64 kanals situated in Village Pandwala, Tehsil Rajpura, as described in the heading of the plaint. In the alternative, they prayed for grant of a relief of possession of the said land as per jamabandi for the year 1971 -72.

(3.) IN opposition to the pleadings in the plaint, the respondents admitted the decree of 1904 but resisted the suit by pleading that the suit land was never allotted to the appellants, but was allotted to the respondents. The correctness of the entries in the Khasra Girdawris were denied and it was pleaded that these wrong entries were subsequently rectified by the revenue authorities.