JUDGMENT :

1. An order dated 26.04.2018 passed by the Joint Financial Commissioner with powers of Financial Commissioner, Revenue [‘FC] in a revision petition titled ‘Som Dutt vs Sansar Chand is subject matter of challenge in this petition.

2. Before I take up the grounds of challenge urged by learned counsel appearing for the petitioner, a brief resume of the factual antecedents leading to filing of the instant petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India would be desirable.

3. Land in dispute in this case measures 2 kanals and falls in khasra No. 609 min [‘the subject land’]. The Subject land is classified as ‘Gair Mumkin Khud’situate in village Dasgal, Tehsil Akhnoor, District Jammu and forms part of shamilat deh. As per the entries made in Jamabandi of 19571958, the subject land is recorded in the possession of the owners of the village as ‘maqbooja malkaan’. The claim of the petitioner, as is projected by him throughout, is that the subject land was purchased by him from one Puran Chand son of KunjLal with possession through a registered Sale Deed dated 07.02.1994 and, accordingly, mutation No. 856 was attested in his favour on 28.11.2001.The petitioner further claims