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Once the validity of the deed of gift was gone into by the Additional Member, Board of Revenue, his finding cannot be said to be perverse, inasmuch as, as has been noted above on 29.05.2000, the sale deed in favour of the respondent-writ petitioner was registered and on 02.06.2000, she is said to have given any gift to her minor children by showing them to be under the guardianship of her husband, i.e the father of the minors. It is about this stamp paper of deed of gift that even the first authority had found that it was a procured document in fact having been taken out of the bank where it was earlier deposited by the respondent-writ petitioner and later on used it by antedating through the help of stamp vendor. The cancellation of licence of the stamp vendor, therefore, would go a long way to show that this deed gift was created only in order to defeat the pre-emption application already filed by the appellant even before its being registered on 27.06.2000. Once we come to this conclusion that there was something fishy about creation of deed of gift, rest of the case of the respondent- writ petitioner becomes absolutely invulnerable, inasmuch as, it is found that she had retained 1½ decimals of 23 decimals and had transferred the ownership of remaining 21½ decimals from portion in which the appellant had been shown to be in the area of plot no. 2865, whereas, shown about he had already 30 decimals of land even before execution of the sale deed.