Can a claim against persons who hold title to the suit property but are strangers to the partition suit be decided in the same suit?

[Educator]

Take for instance a suit filed for partition by a member of the Hindu Undivided Family. If one of the coparceners or an alienee from such coparcener, claims independent title to one of the properties bought in his individual name, it may be open to the Court while trying the suit for partition to decide whether such a property belongs exclusively to the defendant. To this limited extent,