(1.) MANI Santhalin, wife of Ghasi Santhal of village Karandi now within Singhbhum East district, filed Title Suit No. 2279 of 1965 against Thura Manjhi and Munna Manjhi, in the court of Munsif, Jamshedpur for declaration of her right, title and interest over the lands, detailed in Schedule A to the plaint, i.e. northern portion of Plot No. 5413, measuring 38 decimals. In the said suit a compromise petition, Annexure 2 was filed on 7.2.19136 admitting her peaceful possession and enjoyment of the suit lane! by defendants adversely and openly for more than twelve years without any interruption from any body and accordingly the suit was disposed of in terms of the compromise.
(2.) AFTER lapse of about twenty -eight years, Mani Santhalia filed a petition for mutation of her name in the Jamabandi running for the land in question in the Register II, the tenants' ledger maintained by the State Government on the basis of the aforesaid compromise decree, which was allowed by the Anchal Adhikari, Jamshedpur, on 16.8.1994, Annexure 4.
(3.) MEANWHILE Mani Santhalin died and her son Khela Ram Mardi also died, leaving behind his widow Galo Mardi, who preferred CWJC No. 59 of 1999 (R) in this Court, which was dismissed by the learned Single Judge, by impugned order dated 20.3.2001, mainly on the basis that the Deputy Commissioner was not made party in the 1965 suit and the petition for mutation was filed after twenty -eight years.