V.K.BALI, J.

1. In a bunch of 163 petitions which came to be disposed of by a common judgment, the learned single Judge upheld the vires of Section 7 of the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961 and besides some other, dismissed Civil Writ Petitions Nos. 18016, 18018 and 18049 of 1991 on merits as well. Petitioners in Civil Writ Petitions referred to above, being not satisfied have filed the present Letters Patent Appeals bearing Nos. 868, 884 and 869 of 1992 under Clause X of the Letters Patent Act and same as dealt with by the learned single Judge need be disposed of by a common order.

2. The common question that needs adjudication in all these appeals is as to whether Bachat land i.e. land found surplus after putting the land of the proprietors as contributed by them according to their share for the common purposes, vests with Gram Panchayat or continues to be owned by the proprietors of the village. Connected with the question aforesaid is also the question as to whether land which is shown in the revenue records as Bachat land, by making a simple mutation in favour of Gram Panchayat, there being no basis established for such a change, is it mutation that s