By the Court.—The brief facts of this case are that the petitioner claims himself to be the owner of plot Nos. 96 and 179 situated in village Purwa Nankari, Tehsil Sadar, District Kanpur Nagar which he succeeded from his grand father late Dhani Ram. In the year 1996 his name was also mutated in the revenue record (Khatauni) in the mutation proceedings held after the death of Dhani Ram, who died in the year 1995. The cultivatory possession over the land has been pleaded in paragraph 5 of the writ petition. The extract of Khatauni showing the land of plot Nos. 96 and 179 in the name of the petitioner has been brought on record as Annexure-1 to the writ petition. It has been stated that the land revenue has been paid by the petitioner upto 22 June, 2008. It has also been stated in paragraph 7 of the writ petition that in the life time of late Dhani Ram, Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act’) came into force and late Dhani Ram had submitted return under Section 6 of the Act declaring the land owned and possessed by him at the time of commencement of the Act. The Competent Authority, thereafter rejected the objection filed to the not