JUDGMENT

P. K. TRIPATHY, J. — Order dated 17.12.1996 of learned Civil Judge (Senior Division), Talcher in Title Suit No. 15 of 1990 and Judgment of learned Addl. District Judge, Angul in Civil Revision No. 34/11 of 1996-1997 are under challenge under Article 227 of the Constitution of India. Plaintiffs are the petitioners and defendants are the opposite party Nos. 3 and 4.

2. The fact noted in the impugned orders is not in dis¬pute. According to plaintiffs’ case before the Court below, lands appertaining to Plot No. 1589 having an area of Ac. 0.130 deci¬mals and Plot No. 1590 having an area of Ac. 0.030 decimals under Khata No. 954 of mouza-Nizigarh town, Talcher is the ancestral property of the plaintiffs and defendant No. 3. Residential houses have been constructed on the western side of Plot No. 1589 and on a part of Plot No. 1590 by leaving a space of four links in east-west and sixty-five links in north-south and that stripe of land is the disputed suit land. Plot Nos. 1591 and 1591/2984 are adjacent land of Plot Nos. 1589 and 1590. In 1986, defendant No. 1 purchased land appertaining to Plot No. 1591 and defendant No. 2, i.e. the husband of defendant No. 1, started constructi