Mr. Alok Singh, J. (Oral): - Petitioner has invoked the writ jurisdiction of this Court assailing the orders dated 16.11.2010, 26.9.2007 and 30.3.2007 passed by respondents No.1, 2 and 3, respectively, arising out of the mutation proceedings.

2. Petitioner is claiming himself natural heir of Mohinder Singh being his son while private respondents are claiming inheritance on the basis of alleged registered ‘Will’.

3. Undisputedly, as on day no land revenue is assessed or is being recovered in the States of Punjab and Haryana.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has stated that civil suit between the parties is already pending involving the question of inheritance of the estate of Mohinder Singh.

5. Privy Council in (Thakur) Nirman Singh and others versus Thakur Lal Rudra Partap Narain Singh and others, A.I.R.1926 Privy Council-100, has held as under:-

“It is an error to suppose that the proceedings for the mutation of names are judicial proceedings in which the title to and the proprietary rights in immovable property are determined. They are nothing of the kind, as has been pointed out times innumerable by the Judicial Committee. They are much more in the nature of fisca