S. Ravindra Bhat, J.

1. The present common judgment and order will dispose off three appeals preferred by the unsuccessful first defendant against an order of the learned Single Judge, in C.S. (O.S.) 980/2009. The impugned order of 12.11.2010 dismissed the appellant's application for rejection of the suit instituted by the first four respondents. The impugned order had also allowed an application preferred by the said respondents under Order 40, Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) and appointed a receiver in respect of the two suit properties in question.

2. The respondents in these appeals (plaintiffs in the suit) are daughters of the late Shri Rajendra Vikram Singh. In the suit, they claimed partition of two properties: B-10, West End, New Delhi and a commercial property, No. 510, Suryakiran Building, 19, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi. The latter was purchased from the sixth defendant. The West End property, claim the plaintiffs, was joint family property owned by their father and his brother, the late Shri Jaswant Singh. The appellant herein (the first defendant in the suit), Shri Jaswinder Singh is the son of the late Shri Jaswant Singh. The second defendant, Ms. Surinder K