1. Matter was finally heard.

2. The defendants/appellants are aggrieved by the judgment and decree dated 5.9.1998 delivered by Additional District Judge, Kanker in C.S. No. 16-A/1996 whereby the plaintiffs/respondents' suit for declaration of title on the basis of a registered sale deed executed by Banshi Das, Dhurra Das and Babu Das on 5.2.1971 in favour of the plaintiff and for a declaration that the sale deed executed by Banshi Das, Dhurra Das and Babu Das in favour of defendant No.4 of a part of the same land on 8.4. 1996 is void and also for a permanent injunction to restrain the defendants No.1,2 and 4 from interfering with the possession of the plaintiff over the suit land, was decreed in favour of the plaintiff.

3. Shri Vishnu Koshta, learned counsel for the appellants/defendants did not dispute that defendants Banshi Das, Dhurra Das and Babu Das had executed the sale deed on 5.2.1971 of the suit lands in the name of plaintiff Milapram. It is also not in dispute that Ganesh, father of Milap was put in possession of the suit land in 1971 as admitted by Banshi Das D. W.- 1 in para 1. The only point urged by the learned counsel for the appellant in this appeal is that at