V. NATH, J.

1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. Questioning the legal sustainability of the impugned order by which the learned court below has turned down the prayer of the petitioner for being impleaded as party in the suit filed by the respondent no. 1, the present application under Article 227 of the Constitution of India has been filed.

3. From the perusal of the plaint (Annexure-1) of T.S. No. 73 of 2001, it transpires that the said suit has been filed by the plaintiff for declaration of title over the suit land on the basis of purchase. It has been the case of the plaintiff that the suit land measuring 1 decimal in plot no. 1479 was never a 'Rasta' but has been wrongly shown in the revisional survey to be the part of the Rasta existing in plot no. 1479. The plaintiff has impleaded respondent nos. 2 to 8 as defendants in the suit making specific allegations against them for infringing the right of the plaintiff over the suit land and asserting their own right over the same. The respondent no. 9 the State of Bihar has been also impleaded as defendant in the suit. It further transpires from the records that the written statement has been filed by the defendant 1