ORDER

The petitioners admittedly filed O.S. No. 213/93 (subsequently numbered as O. S. 251 / 87) for relief of permanent injunction restraining the respondents from alienating, encumbering, selling, disposing of, or in any way dealing with the said property, more particularly described in Scheduled A to the plaint or any portion thereof. In paragraph 13 of the plaint it was stated thus :

"The said defendants after a lapse of a month, through a letter dated 29th April, 1987 sent by defendant No. 4 to plaintiff No. 1 blandly intimated that the offers of plaintiff No. 1 were not being accepted by the trustees of defendant No. 1, a copy of the 4th defendants said letter dated 29th April, 1987 is annexed hereto and marked as document No. 4. By his letter dated 4th May, 1987 addressed to defendant No. 4, the plaintiff No. 1 set out the correct position and reiterated that a definite and concluded contract for sale of the said property in favour of plaintiff No. 1 had been confirmed by the said defendants to allege that the offers had not been accepted. The 1st plaintiff by their said letter also reiterated their readiness and willingness to perform their part of the contract and pay the b