The respondents/plaintiffs have laid the suit, in O.S.No.226 of 2015, on the file of the Additional Subordinate Court, Kumbakonam, for recovery of possession against the revision petitioners/defendants. The said suit is being resisted by the revision petitioners/defendants by filing a written statement. It is found that in the said suit, the revision petitioners have preferred an application in I.A.No.16 of 2017 seeking for the admission of the unregistered lease deed, dated 01.02.2002, in evidence on the footing that the lease deed had been executed in respect of the suit property between the first petitioner and one Nagarajan fixing the lease period as fifteen years from 01.02.2002 to 31.01.2017 and inasmuch as the said document is unregistered and not properly stamped, according to the revision petitioners, they are ready to pay the deficit stamp duty and penalty and further, according to them, inasmuch as the unregistered document could be relied on for collateral purpose, to prove the character of possession, according to them, they have preferred the said application for the relief above mentioned.

2. The above said application has been resisted by the respondents/plai