1. BY the Court:-A learned Judge of this Court has referred this writ petition for decision to a larger Bench as he felt that the single Judge pronouncement made in Trivent Singh v. State of U. P., 1961 RD 58, might require reconsideration and as he also felt that the controversy involved in this petition 'is of considerable importance and is likely to occur frequently.'

2. THE facts, in brief, are these. In the basic year the land in dispute stood recorded in the names of the petitioners. It may be stated that the basic year was 1969 as the notification Trivent Singh v. State of U. P., 1961 RD 58 58 of Holdings Act (hereinafter referred to as the said Act) was issued on May 17, 1969. The petitioners were recorded as Bhumidhars of the plot in question. An objection was filed by the Gaon Sabha, respondent no. 4, before us, claiming that the land constituted Gaon Sabha property and the petitioners' names were wrongly recorded as the Bhumidhars of the land. Contest was joined by the petitioners who claimed to have purchased the land in dispute by a sale deed which was executed in their favour on 1-5-1956 by Gur Bux Singh and Har Bhajan Singh who were alleged to have acquired