Judgement ISMAIL, C.J.:- This is an appeal against the order of N.S. Ramaswami J. dated 6th October, 1975 made in A.A.O. No.182 of 1975. O.S. No. 145 of 1968 on the file of the Court of the Subordinate Judge of Madurai was a suit to enforce a mortgage and in that suit a decree was passed. E. P. No. 232 of 1970 was filed in that suit to execute the decree and the property was sold in auction on 1-11-1971, and the appellant herein was the auction-purchaser. The judgment-debtors filed E. A. No. 207 of 1972 under O. 21, Rule 90. C.P.C. to set aside the sale, and that application was dismissed on 5-1-1974. The appeal preferred by the judgment-debtors. in A. A.O. No. 51 of 1974, to this Court also failed, as the same was dismissed on 13-8-1974. In the meanwhile, a petition to adjudge the judgment-debtors insolvents was filed on 30-10-1971, and the order of adjudication itself was made on 17-12-1971. The Official Receiver, representing the estate of the insolvents, filed E. A. 2 of 1975 to set aside the sale on the ground that no notice was given to him and that the permission of the Court was also not obtained. The learned Subordinate Judge of Madurai passed an order on 1-3-1975 dismissing the application, holding that the adjudication took place only on 17-12-1971, that on the date when the sale took place, namely, 1-11-1971, the Official Receiver was not in the picture, and that therefore, there was no question of giving notice to him or obtaining the permission of the Court for the sale of the property. It was against this order of the learned Subordinate Judge that the Official Receiver filed A.A.O. No. 182 of 1975, before this Court. The learned Judge (N.S. Ramaswami J.) by his order dated 6th Oct.,1975, reversed the order of the learned Subordinate Judge, Madurai, and allowed the appeal, A.A.O. 182 of 1975 allowing E. A. No. 2 of 1975 and set aside the sale. It is against this order the present appeal has been filed by the auction-purchaser. 2. The learned Judge (N.S. Ramaswami J.) by his order dated 6th Oct.,1975, reversed the order of the learned Subordinate Judge, Madurai, and allowed the appeal, A.A.O. 182 of 1975 allowing E. A. No. 2 of 1975 and set aside the sale. It is against this order the present appeal has been filed by the auction-purchaser. 2. The ground on which N.S. Ramaswami J. reversed the order of the learned Subordinate Judge, is that by operation of S.28 (7) of the Provincial Insolvency Act, the vesting of the property in the Official Receiver on the adjudication of the debtors as insolvents dated back to the presentation of the petition for adjudication, that in the present case it dated back to 30-10-1971, that by virtue of this statutory provision the equity of redemption vested in the Official Receiver and that consequently the decree-holders could not have brought the property to sale without notice to the Official Receiver. The learned Judge further held that S.51 (3) of the Provincial Insolvency Act which corresponded to S.53 (3) of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, saved only those persons who had purchased the property in good faith, that in this case the auction-purchaser, namely, the the appellant herein, had not even filed a counter contending that he had purchased the property in good faith and for consideration, and that therefore that question did not arise. It is the correctness of this conclusion of the learned Judge that is canvassed in the present Letters Patent Appeal. 3. Section 38 (2) of the Provincial Insolvency Act provides for the vesting of the property in the Official Receiver on the making of an order of adjudication, and it reads as follows- "28. It is the correctness of this conclusion of the learned Judge that is canvassed in the present Letters Patent Appeal. 3. Section 38 (2) of the Provincial Insolvency Act provides for the vesting of the property in the Official Receiver on the making of an order of adjudication, and it reads as follows- "28. (2) On the making of an order of adjudication, the whole of the property of the insolvent shall vest in the Court or in a receiver as hereinafter provided and shall become divisible among the creditors and thereafter, except as provided by this Act, no creditor to whom the insolvent is indebeted in respect of any debt provable under this Act shall during the pendency of the insolvency proceedings have any remedy against the property of the insolvent in respect of the debt or commence any suit or other legal proceeding, except with the leave of the Court and on such terms as the Court may impose." Section 28 (7) states- "An order of adjudication shall relate back to and take effect from the date of the presentation of the petition on which it is made." Sub-section (6) of S.28 states- "Nothing in this section shall affect the power of any secured creditor to realise or otherwise deal with his security, in the same manner as he would have been entitled to realise or deal with it if this section had not been passed." 4. A combined reading of Sub-sees. (2), (6) and (7) of S.28 of the Act will lead to the inference that in the case of a secured creditor his right to realise or otherwise deal with the security will not be affected either by the vesting provided for in S.28 (2) or by the doctrine of relation back provided for in S.28 (7) of the Act. As we pointed out already, in this case the decree for the sale of the property must have been passed much earlier to 30-10-1971, because the execution petition itself was filed in 1970. Even the order of the Court directing the sale of the property should have been passed much earlier to 30-10-1971, because the sale actually took place on 1-11-1971. Even the order of the Court directing the sale of the property should have been passed much earlier to 30-10-1971, because the sale actually took place on 1-11-1971. Under these circumstances, the question for consideration is whether there is any reality in the requirement that the decree-holders should have obtained the permission of the Court for bringing the property to sale or should have given notice to the Official Receiver before obtaining an order for sale. Even giving full effect to the doctrine of relation back provided for in S.28 (7) of the Act, the order of the Court directing the Sale of the property having been passed even before 30-10-1971, it could not have been possible in practice for the decree-holders to have given notice to the Official Receiver or to have applied for and obtained the permission of the Court, because on that date even the petition for adjudication was not there and more so the Official Receiver. Hence, looking at the problem purely from the practical point of view, it could not be contended that the sale which took place on 1-11-1971, was liable to be set aside on the ground that the order for sale was made without notice to the Official Receiver and without the permission of the Court. 5. In our opinion, it is not even necessary to go so far, in view of the provision contained in sub-sec. (6) of S.28, that nothing contained in the section shall affect the power of any secured creditor to realise or otherwise deal with the security in the same manner as he would be entitled to realise or deal with it, if that section had not been passed, and, when it so provides, it proceeds to create a fiction that, with regard to the rights of a secured creditor referred to in sub-section (6) of S. 28, neither sub-sec. (2) nor sub-sec. (7) of S.28 should be deemed to have been in existence or enacted. If so, there is no scope for applying either the provisions of vesting or the theory of relation back, so as to restrain or curtail the power of the secured creditor saved under sub-sec. (6) of S.28. 6. Mr. D.C. Krishnamurthi, learned counsel for the Official Receiver, brought to our notice the decision of the Bombay High Court in Babu Rama Chaugule v. Goodwill Bank Ltd. Miraj. (6) of S.28. 6. Mr. D.C. Krishnamurthi, learned counsel for the Official Receiver, brought to our notice the decision of the Bombay High Court in Babu Rama Chaugule v. Goodwill Bank Ltd. Miraj. AIR 1973 Bom 342 . In that case, the Court had no occasion to consider the practical implications of the doctrine of relation back provided for in S.28 (7) of the Act. In that case a final decree in a mortgage suit was passed on 31-10-1949. A petition for adjudication of the debtor as insolvent was made in 1950 and the actual order of adjudication was passed on 6-12-1957. The execution petition with which the Bombay High Court was concerned was filed on 7-2-1963. It was in that set-up the question that came to be considered was whether the Official Receiver should have been made a party to the execution petition filed on 7-2-1963. The Bombay High Court held that the only person to represent the estate of the judgment-debtor on 7-2-1963, was the Official Receiver, that therefore, he should have been made a party and that the execution proceedings instituted against the original judgment-debtor without impleading the Official Receiver, who alone represented the estate, were misconceived. It was in that context, only that the Bombay High Court observed (at p. 346)- "To be more explicit, if a secured creditor has a right to sell the property through Court or privately, or to foreclose it, that right is not affected. The manner of enforcing the security, viz., selling privately or through Court foreclosing through the same manner is also not affected. This does not mean that the secured creditor could deal with the property in the absence of any legal representation of that property. If by operation of law from the date of the adjudication the insolvent ceases to represent the property altogether and the only person that can represent that property and deal with it is the receiver appointed by the Insolvency Court, the secured creditor cannot ignore this fact. In other words, a devolution by the operation of law pending suit cannot be ignored by the secured creditor." 7. In other words, a devolution by the operation of law pending suit cannot be ignored by the secured creditor." 7. It is pertinent to point out that in the above case, the Bombay High Court referred to the 'date of the adjudication' and not the "date of the presentation of the petition for adjudication" with reference to the operation of S.28 (7) of the Act, and that is the reason why we pointed out that the Bombay High Court had no occasion to consider the scope of the doctrine of relation back provided for in S.28 (7) of the Act, on which alone N.S. Ramaswami J. relied for reversing the conclusion of the learned Subordinate Judge. 8. N.S. Ramaswami j. himself has relied on the decision of a Full Bench of this Court in Raghava Reddi v. Official Assignee Madras 1964-2 Mad LJ 168 : ( AIR 1964 Mad 549 ) (FB). That case was not concerned with a mortgage decree and, therefore, the learned Judges had no occasion to consider the exact scope of Section 28 (6) of the Act. What the learned Judges, after elaborately considering the statutory provisions and some of the decisions, held was "To sum up, the title of a purchaser in an execution sale against a debtor, after the admission of a petition to adjudicate the latter as insolvent is a defeasible title. If, the insolvency petition is dismissed, he gets good title. If, however, an adjudication is trade, his title would normally be displaced by the Official Assignee or Official Receiver, as the case may be; but this rule is subject to an exception in favour of purchaser in good faith, who will be protected by reason of such good faith. Section 53(3) being, therefore, an exception to the general rule of relation back of the Official Assignee's title, the operation of which makes the statutory title of the Official Assignee to give way before it, the burden of proving good faith will be on the person seeking advantage of the exception." Having regard to the fact that the Full Bench was not considering a mortgage decree and therefore was not considering the scope of S.28 (6) of the Act, that decision has no application to the present case. Under these circumstances, the appeal is allowed, the order of N.S. Ramaswami J. dated 6th October 1975, is set aside and the order of the learned Subordinate Judge dated 1-3-1975 is restored. There will be no order as to costs.