( 1 ) THE first petitioner is a firm and petitioners 2 and 3 are its partners. They are tenants of mulgi bearing No. 1-2-174, charkaman, Hyderabad, owned by the respondents. In 1985, the second petitioner along with two others filed a suit for specific performance of agreement of sale alleged to have been executed by one Madanlal Gupta in respect of mulgies bearing No. 21-2-172, 173 and 174, Charkaman, Hyderabad. The second petitioner along with one devakinandam filed O. S. No. 2587 of 1985 (later numbered as O. S. No. 307 of 1993) on the file of the IV Additional Judge, City civil Court, Hyderabad against respondents 1 and 2 for perpetual injunction restraining them from changing the nature of the suit schedule premises. The Trial Court, by a common judgment dated 16-2-1994 decreed both the suits in favour of the petitioners. Aggrieved by the said judgment and decree respondents and others filed first appeals before this Court being C. C. C. A. Nos. 39, 41, 194, 47 of 1994 and 49 of 1997.

( 2 ) WHILE the suits were pending, respondents filed R. C. No. 812 of 1987 on the file of the I Additional Rent Controller, hyderabad seeking eviction of the petitioners on groun