K. N. Goyal, J.

1. KHATA No. 109 in dispute which consists of about 23 plots in all was recorded in the basic year khatauni in the name of Girdhari Lal, the original respondent no. 1 alone. The petitioner Sriram preferred a claim before the consolidation authorities contending that he had one-half share therein. Girdhari Lal and Sriram were descendants of a common ancestor. The Consolidation Officer allowed the petitioner's claim in respect of three plots only. On appeal preferred by the opposite party the Settlement Officer dismissed the claim of the petitioner and held that the entire land belonged to the opposite party. The petitioner filed a revision, and on that revision the Dy. Director upheld the petitioner's claim in respect of one half share over the entire holding and not merely in respect of three plots as had been held by the Consolidation Officer. Aggrieved by this decision of the Dy. Director the opposite party filed a Writ Petition No. 22 of 1975 in this court contending that the opposite party was the sole tenure holder of the land to the exclusion of the petitioner, that the judgment of the Settlement Officer was correct, and that the Dy. Director had wrongl