JUDGMENT :

RAVINDRA KUMAR AGRAWAL, J.

1. The present first appeal under Section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 has been filed by the defendant No.1 against the Digitally impugned judgment and decree dated 05.07.2014, passed by learned 3^rd Additional Judge to the Court of First Additional District Judge, Bilaspur, in Civil Suit No. 33-A/2013, whereby the decree for specific performance of contract has been passed in favour of the plaintiffs.

2. For the sake of convenience, the status of the parties as shown in the civil suit is being referred to in the present appeal.

3. The plaintiffs, Ravindra Jaiswal and Triloki Prasad Bhargava, filed a civil suit for specific performance of the contract and for possession of the suit land bearing khasra No. 418/1, area 0.36 acres situated in the village Sakari, P.H. No. 26, Tahsil Takhatpur, District Bilaspur. It is pleaded in the plaint that, in the year 2008, the Sakri-Turkadih bypass road was constructed and the plaintiffs came into contact with the defendant No.1, who was in need of money and wanted to sell his land, which was situated adjacent to the bypass road. The plaintiffs tentatively get the measurement of the land of the plainti