Hon’ble Siddhartha Varma, J.—The petitioner was granted patta in the year 1996 after the resolution of the Management Committee was approved by the Sub-Divisional Officer under the U.P.Z.A. & L.R. Act 1950 (hereinafter called as ‘the 1950 Act’), Manjhanpur, Kaushambi by his order dated 15.8.1996. Thereafter upon completion of 10 years as per the provisions of the 1950 Act, the petitioner was recognized as a bhumidhar with transferable rights. This change of status was recognized by an order dated 24.4.2007. However, when in the month of July, 2010, the petitioner came to know about an order which was passed on 27.1.2010 by which his name had been expunged from the Revenue Record and his patta had been cancelled the petitioner preferred a revision before the Commissioner who remitted the matter back on 2.8.2010 to the Collector for reconsideration. However, the Collector again cancelled the patta on 13.12.2010 and the Commissioner before whom the revision was filed dismissed the same on 7.10.2013. Aggrieved thereof, the petitioner has approached this Court by means of a writ petition.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that when the patta was granted to him