JUDGMENT

Yashwant Varma, J. - Although learned counsels representing the respondents are present, none has appeared for the petitioner when the matter was called.

2. This writ petition has been preferred challenging the order of 2 March, 2020 passed by the District Magistrate, West acting as the Appellate Authority, under the Registration Act, 1908 [the Act]. In terms of that order the Appellate Authority has set aside the decision taken by the Sub Registrar concerned in refusing to register a sale deed which had come to be duly presented for registration by respondent Nos. 4 and 5. The case of the petitioner in the writ petition is that he is the bona fide purchaser of plot No. 197-C comprised in khasra No. 852 situated in village Tihar, New Delhi. It is asserted that the aforesaid plot was in the joint ownership of the Inder Gopal and Girdhar Gopal. Girdhar Gopal is stated to have executed a registered Will bequeathing his share in that property to the sixth respondent in terms of a sale deed dated 4 July, 2019. It is in terms of that bequest that the sixth respondent is stated to have executed a sale deed in favour of the petitioner. It is further averred that the fifth respondent