JUDGMENT :

Sanjay K. Agrawal, J.

1. The substantial question of law involved, formulated and to be answered in this plaintiff's second appeal is as under:-

"Whether the lower appellate Court was justified in reversing the finding recorded by the trial Court that the sale deed dated 11.02.1997 executed by Sukariya Bai was without consideration and void ab initio?"

(For the sake of convenience, parties would be referred as per their status and ranking shown in plaint before the trial Court.)

2. Plaintiff Jantram filed a suit for declaring three sale deeds Exs. P-4, P-5 & P-6 executed by his mother Sukariya Bai on 11-2-1997 in favour of Dayadas (defendant No. 1), Neelkanth (defendant No. 2) & Premchand (defendant No. 3) to be null and void mainly on the ground that on 11-2-1997, the date on which sale deeds were executed by his mother, his mother was aged and illiterate woman and the defendants, taking benefit of her old age and illiteracy, fraudulently without payment of consideration to her, got the aforesaid sale deeds executed in their favour in the Office of the Registrar, Raipur. Since no consideration amount has been passed to seller Sukariya Bai, to his mother, and the defendants h