JUDGMENT :

MAHENDAR KUMAR GOYAL, J.

1.This writ petition is directed against the judgment and decree dated 12.06.2008 passed by the Board of Revenue Rajasthan, Ajmer (for brevity, ‘Board of Revenue’) whereby, while dismissing the appeal preferred by the petitioners/appellants/defendants (for brevity, ‘defendants’), the judgment and decree dated 27.08.2001 passed by the Revenue Appellate Authority, Sikar, Camp Jhunjhunu (for brevity, ‘RAA’) allowing the appeal no.103/2000 preferred by the respondent/plaintiff (for brevity, ‘plaintiff’) against the judgment and decree dated 21.10.2000 passed by the Assistant Collector (Headquarter), Jhunjhunu (for brevity, ‘trial Court’) dismissing her suit for declaration and partition, has been affirmed.

2. The relevant facts in brief are that the plaintiff filed a suit for declaration and partition stating that the subject property was the ancestral property of the parties. It was averred that her grandfather Shri Dularam had three sons namely S/Shri Bhura Ram, Lichmanram and Shoynarayan. Shri Dularam had already left the joint hindu family and the subject property continued to be in the joint khatedari of S/Shri Lichmanram and Shoynarayan after the