JUDGMENT :

Tarlok Singh Chauhan, J.

1. The appellants/plaintiffs filed a suit for declaration and consequential relief of injunction to the effect that they are permanent lessees of the grass land known as ?Ghas Godam Mundkhar? comprised in Khasra Nos. 3 and 4 of the revenue estate No. 252/1, Jangal Jhanjiar Tehsil Ghumarwin and that the defendants be restrained from interfering with the possession of the plaintiffs over the said land and from auctioning the grass of the said land.

2. The case of the plaintiffs is that their father late Mian Lekh Ram was granted the aforesaid land by the then ruler of Bilaspur State, Sir Raja Vijay Chand Sahib Bahadur. The grant was made on 19 Sawan 1977 BK and a document known as ?Satha? was issued on 23 Sawan, 1977 BK. This ?Satha? was duly signed by the then ruler Sh. Vijay Chand. It was conveyed through the said ?Satha? that Sh. Lekh Ram aforesaid would be entitled to the grass of the aforesaid forest against an annual rent of Rs.5/-. Mian Lekh Ram continued enjoying the aforesaid right of cutting the grass till his death in the year 1953 and