Leave is granted to convert this petition under Article 227 of the Constitution.

2. By means of this writ petition the petitioners have challenged the order dated 20-12-1988 passed by Sri B. B. Agarwal, District Judge, Allahabad in Civil Revision No. 378 of 1988, affirming the order dated 23-9-1988 passed by the Addi tional Munsif, Allahabad in Suit No. 833 of 1985. The fact of the case, inter alia, was that the respondent No. 3, filed a Suit for declaration of the sale-deed as void or cancellation thereof against the petitioners alleging that he was bhumidhar in respect of the disputed land alongwith his brother, respondent No. 4 and that the petitioner got the sale-deed executed in their favour in respect of the disputed land through imposter and, as such, the sale deed is void and is liable to be cancelled.

3. The petitioners as defendants contended in their written statement that the suit for cancellation of the alleged void document, in view of the assertions, made in the plaint was not maintainable and was barred under Section 331 of U. P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950, herein after-referred to as the said Act, by an order dated 23-9-1988 the l