2024 INSC 640 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 9975-9976 OF 2024 [@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NOS.5034-5035 OF 2019 ] A. B. GOVARDHAN … APPELLANT VERSUS P. RAGOTHAMAN … RESPONDENT J U D G M E N T AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH, J. Heard Mr. Narendra Kumar, learned counsel for the appellant and Mr. V. Prabhakar, learned Senior counsel for the respondent. 2. Leave granted. The pending applications shall be dealt with in the final pages of this judgment. 3. The present appeals germinate from the: 3.1. Final Judgment and Order dated 22.02.2017 (hereinafter referred to as the “First Impugned Order”)1 passed by a Division Bench of the 1 2017 SCC OnLine Mad 11918 | (2017) 3 CTC 777 | (2017) 3 Mad LJ 522 | (2017) 4 LW 421.2 High Court of Judicature at Madras (hereinafter referred to as the “High Court”) in Original Side Appeal2 No.189 of 2011, whereby the appeal filed by the respondent was allowed and Judgment dated 01.04.2010 passed by a