Mr. Rameshwar Singh Malik, J.: (Oral) - Twin important questions of law that fall for consideration of this Court are: (i) whether the Registering Officer under the Registration Act, 1908 (‘the Act’ for short) has got the jurisdiction to cancel the saledeed and (ii) whether an aggrieved party can seek a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the Registering Officer under the Act to cancel the sale-deed.

Facts first.

2. Petitioners claim themselves to be the descendants of one Paras Nath, as per the pedigree table (Annexure P-1). It is further case of the petitioners that in view of the jamabandi for the year 2004-05 (Annexure P- 2), they were joint owners in possession of agricultural land mentioned in the jamabandi. On the basis of alleged bogus and fabricated power of attorney (Annexure P-3), sale-deed dated 27.9.2010 (Annexure P-4) came to be registered qua the above-said land of the petitioners. Having come to know about the above-said sale-deed and on the strength of documents Annexures P-5 to P-7, petitioner No.1 got registered FIR No.204 dated 26.11.2010 under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B IPC at Police Station Bawani Khera, District Bhiwani vide Annexure