THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA

COMMON JUDGMENT:

Challenging the judgment and decree dated 16.12.2002 passed in O.S.No.97 of 1998 by the I Additional District Judge, Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar, the present appeal suits are filed.

2. Since the parties involved and the impugned order in both the cases is one and the same, this Court is inclined to dispose of both the cases by way of this common judgment.

3. For the sake of convenience, hereinafter, the parties will be referred to as they arrayed in the suit.

4. The brief facts of the case are that the plaintiff, engaged in real estate business in Brahmanapally village since 1988, purchased approximately 34 acres 12 guntas of land in Survey Nos.260, 261, 338, 346, 348, and 354 under agreements of sale to develop a housing colony. A layout named "Nava Bharat Housing Colony" was sanctioned in 1991 by defendant No.2, then Sarpanch. Between 1991 and 1993, the plaintiff sold 298 plots, with sale deeds executed by vendors and GPA granted to the plaintiff. Defendant No.2, acting as mediator, was included as co-purchaser along with his wife, defendant No.1, in certain sale deeds. The plaintiff and defendant No.2 jointly purchased 1