Smt N Puttamma v. Sri Yellappa
Case brief
What is this about?
MFA No. 1786 of 2025 (CPC), High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru, decided 22.09.2025 by Justice Hanchate Sanjeevkumar (single judge, oral judgment). Appeal by plaintiff Smt. N. Puttamma against 34 respondents (including purchaser-defendants and the Commissioner, BBMP) regarding interim relief in partition suit O.S.No.8462/2013. Keywords: temporary injunction; Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 r/w Section 151 CPC; Order XXXIX Rule 4 CPC; Order XLIII Rule 1(r) CPC; Section 52 Transfer of Property Act 1882 / lis pendens; coparcener; ancestral joint family property; partition; multiplicity of proceedings; 18 guntas; Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma AIR 2020 SC 1717; cross-examination of purchasers. Outcome: appeal allowed; trial Court's order dt.19.02.2025 (rejecting plaintiffs' injunction application IA No.21, allowing defendants' IA No.26) set aside; defendants restrained from alienating 18 guntas of suit schedule property; all observations tentative, suit to proceed on merits. No monetary quantum involved.