JUDGMENT (Oral)

1. The petitioners are aggrieved by the allowing, by the learned Senior Civil Judge (South) Saket Courts, New Delhi ("the learned SCJ"), of an application filed by the respondents, who were the petitioners in the proceedings before the learned SCJ, under Order VI Rule 17 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC).

2. For the purposes of the present order, suffice it to note that CS 83478/2016 was filed by the respondents-plaintiffs, against the petitioners-defendants, seeking a declaration that the petitioners in the present petition were the defendants in CS 83478/2016, and the respondents herein were the plaintiffs in the said suit. For ease of reference, the petitioners and respondents would be collectively referred to as Manoranjan etc. and Simran etc. respectively.

3. Simran etc. filed CS 83478/2016, seeking a declaration that they were the legal heirs of Smt. Joginder Kaur and Shri Amarjeet Singh along with Manoranjan etc. and on that basis, seeking a restraint against Manoranjan etc. from creating any third party right in the suit property.

4. During the pendency of the proceedings, Simran etc. moved an application under Order VI Rule 17 of the CPC to