( 1. ) THE applicant, Shree Onama Glass Works, Ltd. , Gondia, is a public limited company incorporated under the Indian Companies Act, 1956. It has its registered head office at Gondia, district Bhandara, in the State of Maharashtra. It owns a Glass factory and Refractory Works consisting of lands with the structures thereon situate in Jabalpur. The details have been shown in the map filed with the plaint. It also holds a mining lease for a fire clay mine in mouza Garha, Khasra number of which has been stated in the Schedule annexed to the plaint. It holds some other property also with which we are not concerned in the present case. The applicant was in actual possession of the aforesaid properties till 19-1-1962. On that day, the non- applicants got possession of the aforesaid properties through Shri A. V. Pandit, General Manager of the applicant. The applicant instituted a suit under Section 9 of the Specific Relief Act for possession of the aforesaid properties in the Court of the 1st Additional District Judge. Jabalpur, alleging that it was dispossessed without its consent and otherwise than in due course of law.

( 2. ) DURING the pendency of the suit, the applicant go