JUDGMENT :

Heard Sri Syed Aftab Ahmad, learned counsel for the petitioner. Sri Vijay Bahadur Verma and Sri P.V. Chaudhary, learned counsel appearing for private respondent nos. 6/1 to 6/4 and 7 respectively.

2. The petitioners by means of the instant petition assails the judgment passed by the Assistant Collector 1st Class, Bakshi Ka Talab, Lucknow dated 29.08.2007 whereby in the case under Section 229-B of the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 (hereinafter referred to as the U.P.Z.A. & L.R. Act) instituted by the predecessor-in-interest of the private respondent nos. 6/1 to 6/4 (namely Sarvar Khan) was decreed. The first appeal preferred by the petitioners before the Additional Commissioner (Judicial) Lucknow Division, Lucknow was dismissed by means of judgment dated 20.12.2010 in Appeal No. 440 of 2007-08 and further the second appeal preferred by the petitioners before the Board of Revenue bearing Second Appeal No. 191/2011-12 was also dismissed by means of judgment dated 22.01.2014.

3. In order to appreciate the controversy involved in the above petition, the facts giving rise to the instant petition are being noticed first:-

One Sri Sarvar Khan who was t