Can a defendant who is a stranger to the sale deed challenge it?

[Educator]

In Lal Achal Ram v. Raja Kazim Hussain Khan (1905) 32 IA 113, the Privy Council laid down the principle that a stranger to a sale deed cannot dispute payment of consideration or its adequacy. This decision has since been considered by various High Courts and a distinction has been drawn between a deed which was intended to be real or operative between the parties and a deed which is fictitious