V. RAMASWAMI

Under a registered deed dated 27-12-1971, the fourth respondent, father of the 5th respondent, executed a lease deed for a period of five years in respect of his minor son 5th respondent's separate property in favour of the appellant herein, on the date when the lease deed was executed, the fifth respondent was a minor, his date of birth being 27-9-1957. Claiming to be a cultivating tenant by virtue of the lease deed executed by the 4th respondent, the appellant filed an application before the Tahsildar, the 3rd respondent, under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Lands Record of Tenancy Rights Act (Act 10 of 1969), praying to register him as a tenant in the tenancy records as per the provisions of the Act. The 5th respondent contested the said proceeding on the ground that the lands are his properties, that his father had no manner of right or title to deal with the same and lease the property contrary to the provisions of S.8 of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act (XXXII of 1956), that he had no knowledge of the same, that he avoided the lease executed by his father on 15-9-1978 and that, therefore, the appellant could not claim any right un