In Brief
This case concerns a dispute over land ownership in Hyderabad spanning four decades. The plaintiffs claimed ownership of 2 acres 10 guntas in Survey No. 129/56, alleging it was contiguous with adjacent property in Survey No. 129/73. The defendants (the State) contended that government land (Survey No. 403) lay between the two properties. The trial court dismissed the suit; the High Court reversed it. The Supreme Court restored the trial judgment, holding that the plaintiffs failed to prove the identity and correct location of their alleged property within the claimed survey number. The Court emphasized that where a vendor had sold multiple parcels from the same survey to different buyers, the plaintiff bore the burden of producing comprehensive documentary evidence of all such transactions to establish that their purchased extent actually fell within the claimed survey, not government land.
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