P&H: Restores Trial Court Decree, Upholds Perpetual Leases; Suit Against Mutation Barred By Limitation

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⚖️ Order Date: 25 May 2026
Headnotes
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, O.41.R.27 — Additional evidence at appellate stage — Registered perpetual lease deed covering the remaining parcel of land taken on record as additional evidence as it was not earlier produced is a registered document, directly relevant and necessary for a just and proper adjudication, filling the missing link regarding lease of the whole 32 kanals - Application rightly allowed. (Para 12) Mutation — Nature and effect -Mutation recording leasehold possession over 32 kanals, having been sanctioned on the basis of

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P&H: Restores Trial Court Decree, Upholds Perpetual Leases; Suit Against Mutation Barred By Limitation   High Court has restored a trial court decree in a family land dispute upholding perpetual lease rights created before subsequent sale deeds and ruling that a suit filed to challenge a 1971 mutation was barred by limitation.  The case concerned two agricultural land parcels. Plaintiffs claimed that leases executed in favour of their brother were sham, arguing that once sale deeds were executed giving equal ownership

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