( 1 ) THESE appeals are preferred by petitioners in Miscellaneous Cases Nos. 10087/89 and 10078/89 against the common order dated 22-9-1989 made in seven clubbed cases by the Court of XIX Additional City Civil Judge ("the Court of City Civil Judge"), Bangalore, directing return of the applications filed by them under sub-s. (4) of S. 9 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 ("the Act"), as per R. 10 of O. VII of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, at the same time requiring the petitioners to avail of the provision in R. 10-A of O. VII of that Code.

( 2 ) CANARA Bank Relief and Welfare Society, the first appellant in each of these appeals, was the first petitioner in each of the cases Misc. Case No. 1087/ 89 and Misc. Case No. 10078/89, on the file of the Court of City Civil Judge. K. S. Nair and Mrs. Sulekha Nair, the second and the third appellants in M. F. A. FR. No. 12573/ 89, were the second and the third petitioners in Misc. Case No. 10087/ 89, on the file of the Court of City Civil Judge. T. L. Narayana Rao and Smt. Meenakshi Narayana Rao, the second and the third appellants in M. F. A. FR. No. 12575/89 were the second and the third petitioners in Misc. Case No. 100

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