ORDER: This revision is directed against the order of the learned Subordinate Judge, Tindivanam, in I.A.No.421 of 1992 in O.S.No.166 of 1979. The said I.A. was filed by the revision petitioner/12th defendant in the suit under O.20, Rule 18 read with Sec.151, C.P.C. to set aside the judgment and decree dated 3.3.1987.

2. The petitioner contended that the plaintiff had prayed for a declaration and an injunction and that the petitioner was a minor and did not know anything about the proceedings. About seven years prior to the filing of this petition, she had received summons after she had attained majority. At that time, defendants 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8 under whose care she was living, had promised her to attend to the proceedings on her behalf also. The said defendants being her brothers and she being a woman who was not acquainted with such worldly matters had to be belief in them. Recently, the respondents are trying to forcibly occupy the suit premises by excluding her with police aid. Thereafter, she had enquired into the matter with the assistance of her counsel and she came to know that the suit had been decided ex parte against her and all her brothers have obtained a decree in thei

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