JANARTHANAM J.

This appeal arises out of an order dated February 10, 1982, by a learned single judge in Application No. 1718 of 1981 in C. S. No. 83 of 1965 on the file of this court C. S. No. 83 of 1965 was one in a partition action of the estate of late Chidambaram Chettiar. Out of seven heirs, one of the heirs, namely, Meenakshi Achi, figuring as plaintiff, brought the said partition action, impleading the rest of the heirs as defendants Nos. 1 to 6. By consent, a preliminary decree had been passed declaring the entitlement of one-seventh share in the said estate to each of them. The estate was burdened with the obligations of meeting the pressing demands of huge arrears of income-tax, wealth-tax, urban land tax, property tax and what not. In order to relieve the pressure on the estate, this court, on April 26, 1977, directed an Advocate-Commissioner to sell two items of immovable properties belonging to the estate, namely, house, ground and premises bearing Nos. 5, 5-A and 5-B, Williams Road, Tiruchirapalli, and a vacant site, known as Kallukuzhi, Tiruchirapalli.

Pursuant to the said orders, the Commissioner invited tenders for the purchase of the said items of the pr