law: Specific Relief Act, 1963
  28. Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for
  
  the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has
  
  been decreed
  (1) Where in any suit a decree for specific performance of a
  
  contract for the sale or lease of immovable property has been made and the
  
  purchaser or lessee does not, within the period allowed by the decree or such
  
  further period as the court may allow, pay the purchase money or other sum
  
  which the court has ordered him to pay, the vendor or lessor may apply in the
  
  same suit in which the decree is made, to have the contract rescinded and on
  
  such application the court may, by order, rescind the contract either so far as
  
  regards the party in default or altogether, as the justice of the case may
  
  require.
  (2) Where a contract is rescinded under sub-section (1), the
  
  court-
  (a) shall direct the purchaser or the lessee,
  
  if he has obtained possession of the property under the contract, to restore
  
  such possession to the vendor or lessor; and
  (b) may direct payment to the vendor or lessor
  
  of all the rents and profits which have accrued in respect of the property from
  
  the date on which possession was so obtained by the purchaser or lessee until
  
  restoration of possession to the vendor or lessor, and if the justice of the
  
  case so requires, the refund of any sum paid by the vendee or the lessee as
  
  earnest money or deposit in connection with the contract.
  (3) If the purchaser or lessee pays the purchase money or other
  
  sum which he is ordered to pay under the decree within the period referred to in
  
  sub-section (1), the court may, on application made in the same suit, award the
  
  purchaser or lessee such further relief as he may be entitled to, including in
  
  appropriate cases all or any of the following relief's, namely,-
  (a) the execution of a proper conveyance or
  
  lease by the vendor or lessor;
  (b) the delivery or possession, or partition
  
  and separate possession, of the property on the execution of such conveyance or
  
  lease.
  (4) No separate suit in respect of any relief which may be
  
  claimed under this section shall lie at the instance of a vendor, purchaser,
  
  lessor or lessee, as the case may be.
  (5) The costs of any proceedings under this section shall be in
  
  the discretion of the court.