(1.) Delay of 151 days is condoned. This petition for leave to appeal directed against the judgment and order dated 15.03.2005 passed by a Single Bench of the High Court Division in Civil Revision No. 3768 of 1995 making the rule absolute.
(2.) Short facts are that the present respondent as pre-emptor filed Miscellaneous Case No. 87 of 1988 under section 96 of the State Acquisition and Tenancy Act in the Court of Assistant Judge, Lakshmipur for pre-emption of the case land transferred by a kabala deed dated 02.07.1988 in favour of the pre-emptee No. 1 who is a stranger purchaser and the pre-emptor is a co-sharer by inheritance and the case is within time.
(3.) The pre-emptee contested by filing written objection denying the material allegations made in the miscellaneous application and further contended that the pre-emptee is a co-sharer by purchase in the case holding.