M.M.PUNCHHI, J.

(1) LEAVE granted.

(2) THE High Court of Punjab and Haryana dismissed the writ petition of the appellant in limine taking the view that it was highly belated belated because the appellate order of the Additional Director, Panchayats, Punjab, which the appellant had impugned, was of 13/6/1989 and he had approached the High Court on 18/4/1991. Evidently there was no such delay which could have been viewed as "high" by the High Court especially when a bundle of documents had to be collected by the appellant to prove his case, importance of which can be gathered from what we observe on the merit of the matter.

(3) THE appellant and before him his father, was a village artisan, a blacksmith. The village proprietary body had put his father in possession of a small piece of land out of the joint land termed as shamlet, belonging to the proprietary body. Revenue entries for the year 1944-45 clearly reveal that his father Munshi, son of Gulab Lohar was in possession of the land without payment of any rent to the proprietors for services rendered. On the demise of Munshi, his son the appellant stepped into his shoes. Since the appellant was