In Brief
These consolidated civil appeals involved the preliminary legal question of whether a plaintiff can claim acquisition of title through adverse possession under Article 65 of the Limitation Act, 1963. The Supreme Court held that a plaintiff may indeed take the plea of adverse possession, and there is no statutory bar under the Limitation Act to sue on this basis when any rights have been infringed. The Court's clarification of this point resolved the preliminary issue, and the cases were remanded to the appropriate Bench for consideration on merits.
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