estate under Section 14(1) of the Succession Act has been settled by this Court in the case of Munni Devi alias Nathi Devi(Dead) Thr LRs & Ors. v. Rajendra alias Lallu Lal(Dead) Thr LRs & Ors.3 He placed reliance on the pertinent observations(reproduced infra) made by this Court in Munni Devi(supra) and implored the Court to dismiss the appeal and affirm the impugned judgments. 15. We have given our thoughtful consideration to the submissions advanced at bar and have gone through the impugned judgment and the material available on record. 3 2022 SCC OnLine SC 643 1016. The plank contention of Shri Puneet Jain, learned counsel representing the appellant for assailing the impugned judgments was that the deceased widow Smt. Nandkanwarbai was never in possession of the suit property and as a consequence, her adopted son, plaintiff Kailash Chand, was precluded from claiming partition of the suit property by virtue of succession and hence, the Revenue suit was not maintainable. He had