R.L. Khurana, J.: The plaintiff has filed the present suit against the seven defendants claiming the following reliefs : (a) delivery of truck No. HIH-2046 plus Rs. 1,00,000/- as compensation for restoring the truck to its original position or in the alternative for recovery of Rs. 3,50,000/- being the price of the truck; (b) mesne profits at the rate of Rs. 10,000/- per month from 13.7.1991 till the date of the suit besides future mesne profits at the rate of Rs. 10,000/- per annum till the truck is restored back; (c) costs of the suit; and (d) any other or further order which the Court may deem fit and proper on the facts and in the circumstances of the case.

2. Briefly, the facts leading to the present suit may be thus stated. The plaintiff Karam chand, obtained a loan of Rs. 1,60,000/- from New Bank of India which subsequently came to be merged with Punjab National Bank, for the purchase of a truck. The truck was purchased by him on 17.2.1987 for a sum of Rs. 2,38,200.60 paise from Messrs Metro Motors, Ambala Cantt. A further sum of Rs. 30,000/- was spent by the plaintiff towards the building of the body of the truck and fitting of other accessories, which work was got c