A short and an important question a raises in this review petition is: whether Order 47, Rule 1 of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 can be invoked to review the judgment by a person who is not a party either in the suit or in the appeal.

2. One Anjanappa filed the suit for partition and separate possession of his half share in the suit schedule property in O.S. No. 332 of 1971, which was later renumbered as O.S. No. 1318 of 1980. The suit property is measuring 4 acres 14 guntas of dry land in Sy. No. 39/4 of Doddakallasandra Village, Uttarahalli Hobli, Bangalore South Taluk along with an existing tiled roof house. A purchaser of the property had also filed a suit in O.S. No. 177 of 1973, which was later renumbered as O.S. No. 473 of 1981 before the City Civil Court, Bangalore for the relief of declaration and for possession in respect of the property mentioned in the suit. These two suits were clubbed together and a common judgment was passed. The suit filed by the plaintiff in O.S. No. 1318 of 1980 was dismissed and the suit filed by the 4th defendant who had purchased a portion of the property in O.S. No.4 73 of 1991 was decreed. Against the judgment and decree passed in O.S. No