ORDER

1. The civil suit CS(OS) No.100/2010, from which the issues being considered and adjudicated upon here arise, was instituted by Smt. Seema Thakur, wife of late Sh. Bansi Lal Thakur (“the first noticee”) through her attorney Sh. Vijay Kapoor (“the second noticee”) besides against the Union of India, through Ministry of Urban Development and Land and Development Office of the Government of India (impleaded as first and second defendants), also showing in the array of parties, in the plaint as originally presented, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) through its assessment and collection department as a defendant (fifth defendant). The record reveals that, on application subsequently made, by order dated 22.5.2013 passed by a division bench of this Court in RFA (OS) No. 42/2013, while the suit was restored (it having been earlier dismissed) by a learned single judge by order dated 18.02.2013, another defendant (sixth defendant) was added to the fray. The litigation though the suit, as it eventually crystallised, was essentially between the plaintiff on one hand and the three private defendants, they being Gopi Chand (third defendant), Sunita Wadhwa (fourth defendant) and Ra