ORDER

1. These appeals by special leave are against the judgment of the High Court dated March 19, 1974 in Second Appeal No. 370 of 1971 and the order dated March 18, 1976, rejecting the review application against the main order. The High Court allowed the defendants second appeal by the main order, after the defendant had failed in the trial court as well as in the first appellate court.

2. The suit property is a house in Faizabad. The defendant-respondent, now substituted by his LRs, was a tenant in the suit house when the house was purchased by the appellants on February 8, 1968 for a sum of Rs 3750, the sale deed being executed by Smt Chinta Devi, wife of Ram Shanker Lal, and their children, Lava Shanker and Smt Snail Bala. The house belonged originally to Ramjas Lal, father of Ram Shanker Lal who died in 1944. The whereabouts of Ram Shanker Lal were unknown and he was not heard by even his wife and children for a long time prior to execution of the sale deed in appellants favour on February 8, 1968. The exact date from which Ram Shanker Lal was not heard of or seen by any of his close relations is not clear. However, in the sale deed itself, it was mentioned by his wife and chil