Bringing closure to a legal battle that has spanned nearly four decades, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday dismissed a regular second appeal filed by five sons challenging the 1988 sale of family agricultural land, upholding the transaction on grounds of legal necessity, limitation, and the self-acquired nature of the property.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Deepak Gupta held that the disputed land at Kotkapura in Faridkot district did not qualify as ancestral coparcenary (joint heirship) property.

“To qualify as ancestral coparcenary property, it must be shown that the property has descended undivided through at least four generations of the male line,” the court observed. “There is no evidence that Harbans Singh had himself inherited the property from his father. Conseque

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