JUDGMENT :

Jahangir Jamshed Munir, J.

1. This writ petition has been filed from an order of the Board of Revenue, U.P. at Allahabad dated 30.3.1999 passed in Revision Nos. 2 and 3 of 1996-97, both titled M/s. Mahamaya General and Finance Company Ltd. v. Dr. Prem Narain and others. By the said order, the Board has allowed both the Revisions aforesaid filed from an order of the Additional Commissioner, Meerut Division Meerut, dated 16.9.1996 passed in Revision No. 42 of 1995-96 and Revision No. 16 of 1995-96 filed by M/s. Mahamaya General and Finance Company Ltd., and held that the preliminary and final decrees dated 15.1.1992 and 12.5.1993 passed in Suit No. 6 of 1987 are both without jurisdiction, as also the consequential orders of auction of the suit property, passed under Section 176 of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act (for short 'the Act').

2. The proceedings leading to the impugned orders passed by the Board of Revenue, in the two connected Revisions, are these: The petitioners, who filed this writ petition were four in number, some of whom are now represented by their legal representatives. They filed Suit No. 6 of 1987 on 12.10.1987, under Section 176 of the Ac