JUDGMENT :

VIRENDER SINGH, J.

1. Appellants have preferred this Regular First Appeal, under Section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure (hereinafter referred to as ‘CPC’) against the judgment and decree, dated 30th December 2016 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the impugned judgment and decree’), passed by the learned Additional District Judge-I, Shimla, H.P. (hereinafter referred to as ‘the learned trial Court’), in Civil Suit RBT No. 3-S/1 of 14/12, titled as Desh Raj vs. Pradeep Sen and Another.

2. By virtue of the impugned judgment and decree, the learned trial Court has decreed the suit of the respondent, for recovery of Rs. 25,00,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Lakh only), alongwith interest @ 9% per annum, from the date of filing of the suit till the realization of the amount, against the appellants.

3. For the sake of convenience, parties to the lis, are hereinafter referred to, in the same manner, as referred to, by the learned trial Court.

4. Brief facts, leading to the filing of the present appeal, before this Court, may be summed up, as under:

Plaintiff-Desh Raj has filed the suit for recovery of Rs. 25,00,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Lakh only), as well as, for permanent prohibitory injunc