MARABASAPPA (D) BY LRS. . vs NINGAPPA — C.A. No. 3495/2001

Summary of Marabasappa v. Ningappa (C.A. No. 003495/2001) The Supreme Court reversed the Karnataka High Court's decision, ruling that disputed agricultural properties were Parwatevva's self-acquired absolute property, not joint family property subject to partition. The Court found the High Court wrongly shifted the burden of proof to defendants and rejected the claim that properties purchased in Parwatevva's name were jointly acquired, holding instead they derived from her independent income from gifted stridhana lands. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.