JUDGMENT :

A.S. Bopanna, J.

Leave granted.

2. The appellants herein were the defendants in the suit bearing OS No.89 of 2008. The suit in question was filed by the respondents herein seeking for a judgment and decree for specific performance of the agreement for sale dated 26.03.2007. The Trial Court on having considered the matter has decreed the suit in part by its judgment dated 23.12.2010. Through the said judgment, the decree for specific performance was declined and the alternate relief directing the appellant herein to pay the sum of Rs. 75 Lakhs with interest at 9% per annum was granted. The plaintiffs claiming to be aggrieved by the same had preferred the appeal under Section 96 of the Civil Procedure Code before the High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam in RFA No. 344 of 2011. The Division Bench of the High Court through its judgment dated 21.08.2018, set aside the judgment passed by the trial court and has allowed the appeal.

3. The appellants herein have accordingly been directed to execute the sale deed in favour of the Respondent No. 1 herein, conveying the properties described in Item Nos. 1, 2, & 5 on the balance sale consideration being deposited within the period of two m