JUDGMENT

R.V.RAVEENDRAN, J.

Leave granted. Heard learned counsel.

2. This appeal is by the defendant in O.S. No.232 of 1979 on the file of the Sub-ordinate Judge, Rajmundry. The said suit was filed by the respondent - plaintiff seeking possession of suit property and mesne profits. The suit was decreed by the trial court on 13.9.1988 and the decree was affirmed by the High Court on 27.9.2006.

3. The case of respondent-plaintiff in the plaint was that she is the owner of the suit schedule property (Survey No.100 of Rajanagaram Village), having purchased it under a registered sale deed dated 10.4.1957 from the previous owners Sathyanarayana Rao and Suryaprakash Rao represented by their mother Varalakshmamma. She paid the entire consideration of Rs.10000/- and obtained possession of the land from her vendors. The appellant-defendant, who is her close relative (son-in-law of her husbands brother) offered to manage the suit land by identifying suitable persons to cultivate the said land. The suit land was given on lease by the plaintiff to various persons suggested by the defendant, from time to time. In the year 1971, the defendant offered that he himself will take the suit land on lease