JUDGMENT :

G.K. Misra, C.J. - Plaintiff's case may be stated in short. S. Pitamber Dora, S. Ramaswami Dora and S. Chakrapani Dora were the intermediaries in Khas possession of the disputed agricultural lands. On 3rd of June, 1946 they sold the disputed lands by a registered sale deed (Ext. 1) for Rs. 2,000/- to Plaintiff No. 2, the Karta of the family of the Plaintiffs and gave delivery of possession. Plaintiffs were thus the intermediaries in Khas possession of the disputed lands. In paragraph 3 of the plaint the Plaintiffs averred that their vendors and after the purchase they themselves were treating the disputed lands as their private lands. First Defendant K. Sitaram Dora is the brother-in-law of the vendors and in collusion with thew he got himself surreptitiously recorded as the tenant of the disputed lands though he was an attester to the sale deed (Ext. 1). Against this entry in the record-of-rights the Plaintiffs filed a revision before the Board of Revenue which was pending by the time the suit was filed in 1961. The Plaintiffs has filed an application on 16-12-1957, after vesting, u/s 8-A(1) of the Orissa Estates Abolition Act, 1951 (Orissa Act I of 1952) (hereinafter to