( 1 ) THIS is a plaintiffs appeal, the plaintiff being the A. P. Wakf Board, Hyderabad (hereinafter called the Wakf Board. The main dispute which falls for consideration in this appeal is whether the extent f Ac. 2,215-85 cents in S. Nos. 212 to 216 in Devada Village and covered by Inam title deed No. 42 is Wakf property. Claiming the property to be Wakf, the Wakf Board filed the suit O. S. No. 148 of 1967 on the file of the Sub-court, Viskhapatnam, for cancellation of the registered lease dated 24-6-1949 (Ex. A6 is the registration extract of that lease deed) executed by Lutfa Rassol and 11 others in favour of the 10th defendant in the suit for a period of 99 years and for cancellation of the various subsequent leases or sub-leases executed in respect of the property and for recovering possession of the property from the 21 persons impleaded in the suit as defendants. The lessors and the lessee under Ex. A. 6 remained ex parte in the suit. The suit was contested in the trial court only by defendants 14 and 21 in whose favour there were certain sub-leases. According to them the property was the personal property of the lessors and was not Wakf property. The learned Subordinate Judg

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