2000 INSC 0867
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

Janaki Pandyani

Vs.
Ganeshwar Panda (Dead) by LRs.

                                         (V.N.Khare and S.N.Variava JJ.)

03.08.2000

ORDER

The Text below is only a summarized version of the order pronounced

Husband of appellant filed suit for partition and possession of one third of joint family property.
Defendant pleaded that it had acquired by adverse possession. High Court held that defendant had
acquired adverse possession over joint family property. Plaintiff and defendant were co-sharers of
property. Appeal allowed on ground that until property is not partitioned it continues to be Joint
Hindu Family.