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(c) By a registered lease dated 30.3.1990 (registered as Document No.3256 of 1990 in the office of the District Registrar of Madras South), M/s. Easun Engineering Co. Ltd. granted a lease of an extent of 354 sq.ft. of land, out of the greater extent of 9 grounds, forming part of the whole extent, to and in favour of Sethuraman Thiayagarajan Engineers Pvt. Ltd., for a term of 999 years;

(d) In pursuance of the lease so obtained on 30.3.1990, in respect of the land of the extent of 354 sq.ft. for a period of 999 years, the lessee, namely, Sethuraman Thiayagarajan Engineers Pvt. Ltd. entered into a Builder's Agreement on 9.4.1990 with a builder by name M/s.R.K. Investments, for putting up an office premises in the 5th floor of the proposed multistoried complex, measuring a built up area of 1279 sq.ft.;

Flat situate at Temple Towers of M/s. R.K.Investments, Old Door No.35/3, New No.476, Anna Salai, Nandanam, Madras 600 035, bounded on the North by land belonging to lessor, South by leasehold land belonging to K.Prakash, East by land belonging to lessor and West by leasehold land belonging to K.A.Chakravarthy measuring about 2467 sq.ft. in the premises and 354 sq.ft. of building site;

(g) By a deed of transfer of lease dated 30.01.1997, registered as Document No.1798 of 1997 in the office of the District Registrar of Madras South (actually presented for registration on 17.4.1997 and not on 30.01.1997), Sethuraman Thiayagarajan Engineers Pvt. Ltd., hereinafter referred to as the company in liquidation, transferred their leasehold rights in the land of the extent of 354 sq.ft., created by the lease deed dated 30.3.1990, in favour of one M.Lakshmi Narayana Choudhary. Clause (2) of the lease deed stated that the lease was for a period of 993 years commencing from 01.4.1996. It is strange that the date of commencement of lease was fixed as 01.4.1996, when clause (1) of the lease deed indicated a conveyance only in presenti and did not record as though the lease had already been orally created even before the date of execution of the deed;

(ii) Under the Builder's Agreement dated 09.4.1990 entered into by the company in liquidation with M/s. R.K.Investments, the office space to be constructed was indicated as 1279 sq.ft. in Schedule 'D';

(iii) But, there was yet another deed of lease dated 14.8.1995 executed by M/s. Easun Engineering Co. Ltd. itself, in favour of the applicant. The said lease deed was registered as document No.3661 of 1995 in the office of the District Registrar of Madras South. As per this lease deed, the applicant got leasehold rights in respect of 167 sq.ft. of land, for a period of 999 years commencing from 14.8.1995 itself. The applicant has not come out clean as to whether the lease of this additional extent of 167 sq.ft. of land (apart from 354 sq.ft. which got from the company in liquidation) was the reason for 1279 sq.ft. of built up area getting enlarged into 2967 sq.ft.