Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 956 · Decided 8 August 2025
Kishundeo Rout & ORS. v. Govind Rao & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 956 · [2025] 9 S.C.R. 113
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 22070/2025
- Decided
- 8 August 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, R MAHADEVAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 96
Headnote
Whether the High Court rightly set aside the order passed by the First Appellate Court by which it had accepted the plea of adverse possession raised by the plaintiffs for the first time in appeal and decreed the suit. Adverse possession - Plea cannot be raised for the first time in appeal - Suit filed by the plaintiffs for cancellation of sale deed, dismissed by trial court - Appeal filed by the plaintiffs - First Appellate Court accepting the plea of adverse possession raised by them for the first time, allowed
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