The original Plaintiff, thereafter, learnt about filing of Suit No.326 of 2010 and reliefs obtained therein. On 18 February 2010, Defendant No.4 claimed to have arranged a pay order for the balance consideration of Rs.40 crores, and withdrew his Notice of Motion in the suit on the ground that the parties were likely to settle the matter. The original Plaintiff's case is that the entire action was collusive on the part of Defendant Nos. 3 to 8. It is alleged by these Defendants that on 18 February 2010, the original Plaintiff signed a purported share transfer form in favour of Defendant No.4. The original Plaintiff claims this to be a forgery; he was not even at his residence at the time when and where the form is claimed to have been signed by him. No money has been paid to the original Plaintiff towards the balance consideration. On the same day, i.e. 18 February 2010, a purported pledge agreement was franked and later executed between Defendant Nos.3, 4 and 7 on the one hand and Defendant No.8 on the other. (The amount of balance consideration of Rs.40 crores, according to the original Plaintiff, was apparently raised from Defendant No.8 on the basis of a pleadge of the suit shares.) On the same day, a notice convening a meeting of Board of Directors of the first Defendant Company was issued, and even an entry was made in the inward register for “lodging of equity shares for transfer”, without physically lodging the suit shares with transfer deeds. On 23 February 2010, the original Plaintiff reported a theft of the suit shares and forgery of his signatures to the Police. Though no meeting was held on 25 February 2010, purported Minutes of the Board Meeting of that day were issued, approving the transfer of the suit shares. On 2 March 2010, the original Plaintiff terminated the 'novatio' of 7 February 2010 by way of abundant caution. In August 2010, a settlement was arrived at between the parties, whereunder Defendant Nos.2, 3 and 4 resigned from
