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6.3.
The appellants have approached this Court by way of the present RSA, challenging the concurrent judgments and decrees rendered by the Courts below. Upon a prima facie examination, the appeal was found to raise substantial and arguable questions of law and fact, thereby justifying its admission for regular hearing. In furtherance of the same, notice was duly issued to the respondent, who entered appearance through learned counsel and opposed the appeal with full vigour at the stage of final arguments. 6.4.
For a thorough, comprehensive, and judicious determination of the questions arising in the present appeal, the complete records of the Courts below were duly summoned and placed before this Court, facilitating a meticulous examination of the evidence, pleadings, and orders for the purpose of careful and reasoned adjudication.
7.
I have heard learned counsel for the parties at length and have given my thoughtful, anxious, and deliberate consideration to the submissions advanced, in the context of the pleadings of the parties, the entire corpus of evidence adduced, and the concurrent findings rendered by both Courts below. The record of the lower Courts has been examined with meticulous care and in its entirety, with a view to determining 'whether the impugned judgments and decrees are tainted by any jurisdictional infirmity, patent illegality, manifest perversity, or misappreciation of evidence of such a nature as would warrant interference by this Court in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction'?
8.
As regards the scope of second appeal, it is now a settled proposition of law that in Punjab and Haryana, second appeals preferred are to be treated as appeals under Section 41 of the Punjab Courts Act, 1918 and not under Section 100 CPC. Reference in this regard can be made to the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Pankajakshi (Dead) through LRs and others V/s Chandrika and others, (2016)6 SCC 157, followed by the judgments in the case of Kirodi (since deceased) through his LR V/s Ram Parkash and others, (2019) 11 SCC 317 and Satender and others V/s Saroj and others, 2022(12) Scale 92. Relying upon the law laid down in the aforesaid judgments, no question of law is required to be framed.
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