JUDGEMENT/ORDER :

1. The petitioner is aggrieved and has challenged the order dated 11.10.2017 passed by the Financial Commissioner (Revenue), Kashmir in revision petition titled Mushtaq Ahmed Khan v. Hajira and others ["impugned order"].

2. Briefly stated, the facts leading to the filing of the present petition, as projected by the petitioner in the petition, are that the petitioner purchased a piece of land measuring 6 kanal 12 marlas covered under Survey Nos.2164, 2142, 2185, 2200, 2231 and 2232 situated at village Hyhama Tehsil and district Kupwara ["the subject land"] from respondent No.3 and the same was subsequently mutated in the name of the petitioner.

3. Respondent No. 2, it is claimed, in the year 2002 filed an appeal before the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Kupwara challenging mutation No. 1891, dated 01.06.2001 on the ground that respondent No.2 being a khananasheen daughter was entitled to inherit the property of the father of the parties. The appeal was disposed of by the Additional Deputy Commissioner vide its order dated 12.05.2012. The impugned mutation was set aside. Feeling aggrieved, the petitioner filed a revision petition in terms of Section 15 of the Land Rev