JUDGMENT

S. C. AGRAWAL, J. :—This appeal, by special leave, is directed against the judgment of the Allahabad High Court dated February 23, 1982 in Writ Petition No. 8876 of 1971.

2. The facts, in brief, are as follows :

One Raja Ram was a tenant of agricultural lands in village Usrapur, Tehsil Sadar, District Pratapgarh in the State of Uttar Pradesh. Raja Ram died leaving behind his wife Smt. Nanki and sister Smt. Koili, respondent No. 1 The appellant, Asharfi Lal, claims to be the so of Raja Ram through Smt. Nanki. After the death of Raja Ram, Smt. Nanki applied for mutation of the name of the appellant, who was a minor at that time, in the revenue records. The said mutation was allowed by the Nyaya Panchayat on August 16, 1953, as well as the Tehsildar by order dated December 4, 1956. Smt. Nanki, the mother of the appellant, it was said, had remarried. On October 14, 1958, Smt. Budhna, the mother of Nanki, filed a suit, as a next friend of the appellant who was a minor, under Section 229-B, of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 for a declaration and the appellant is the son and the only heir of Raja Ram, deceased, and for possession of the agricultural lands o