( 1 ) THE petitioner is facing a suit filed by respondent Wakf Board before the Wakf tribunal. He filed an application seeking dismissal of the suit on the ground that the tribunal has no jurisdiction to try the suit. The Tribunal has dismissed the application. Hence this revision. The only ground agitated before this Court is that the tribunal has no jurisdiction to try the suit which has been filed before it.

( 2 ) IT is submitted that the petitioner-Society has purchased the land in Survey no. 18/1 and 18/2 measuring Ac. 9. 11 guntas from the owners by sale deeds in the year 1981. The petitioner-Society had obtained the layout from the competent authorities for making the plots and the plots have been transferred in the names of the members of the society and 71 members have purchased the land and they are in possession of the said plots. Some of them have constructed houses and compound walls have also been erected. The respondent-Board filed a suit being O. S. No. 87/99 claiming 2000 Sq. yards of the suit land. This suit is for perpetual injunction. The suit was based on a Muntakab dated 18th January, 1951. They claim that the land has been under the control of