Nainar Sundaram, J.

1. The matter arises under the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Lands Records of Tenancy Rights Act X of 1969, hereinafter referred to as the Act. The petitioner claims himself to be a tenant under the Act. The lands belong to a trust. It is stated that respondents 4 to 8 are the trustees. Respondents 9 to 12 claim themselves to be alienees of the lands in question. The lands were originally demised by way of lease to one Kuttianna Gounder, who is no more. According to the petitioner, he being the son of the said Kuttianna Gounder continued to be in possession of the lands as the cultivating tenant and hence he must be recorded as such under the Act. The third-respondent did not countenance this plea of the petitioner. The order of the third-respondent is dated 6.8.1979. Anterior to the order of the third-respondent, the petitioner was obliged to move the civil Court in O.S.No. 222 of 1977 on the file the District Munsif, Karur, against respondents 9 to 12 to ask for the relief of injunction to maintain his possession as a cultivating tenant. That suit, in spite of contest by respondents 9 to 12 herein the defendants in that suit, was decreed on 22-6-1978. As against