item Nos.1 to 4, 7 and 8 of the suit schedule properties on the ground that the plaintiffs are the children born out of void marriage and hence they are not entitled for share in the ancestral properties and held that item Nos.5 and 6 are the self-acquired properties of Channegowda. Plaintiffs as well as the defendants, aggrieved by the judgment and preliminary decree passed in the said suit, preferred appeals in R.A.No.121/2012 and 156/2012, respectively. The first Appellate Court, considered the admission of the defendants in the written statement wherein the defendants have pleaded that the suit schedule properties are purchased by Channegowda and he was cultivating the same and after his demise, the defendants continued in possession of the suit schedule properties. Even assuming for the sake of arguments that, though the plaintiffs are the children born out of void marriage, still are entitled to claim equal share in the father's self-acquired property as per Section 16(3) of the Hindu Marriage Act. Further the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of REVANASIDDAPPA (SUPRA) , has held that the
