Narasimham, J.

1. Civil Revision No. 130 of 1967 and No. 757 of 1965 were heard together and will be disposed of in one Judgment. One Jadunandan Thakur (Opposite Party No. 1 in Civil Revision No. 757 of 1965) filed a money suit (No. 19 of 1960) against Musammat Rampati Kuer and others (the petitioners), alleging that Musammat Rampati Kuer had executed a hand-note for Rs. 661 in his favour on the 4th May, 1958. The hand-note was filed along with the plaint in that money suit. The petitioners, however, alleged that the hand-note was a forgery. The revenue stamp affixed to the hand-note was proved to have been issued by the Government on the 1st October, 1958, several months after the date of the alleged execution of the hand-note, and this was perhaps one of the conclusive pieces of evidence to prove the forgery. The hand-note was alleged to have been scribed by Ramkhela-wan Thakur (Opposite Party No. 2), who signed the handnote also on behalf of the defendant Rampati Kuer.

It was alleged that the plaintiff having come to know that the forgery was detected got a petition filed by his brother Ramshis Thakur (Opposite Party No. 3) on the 11th August, 1960, before the learned Mu