behalf of Gurnam Singh if the property were to have belonged to Iqbal Singh also and the fact that the power of attorney was executed in favour of father only by Gurnam Singh showed that the property belonged only to Gurnam Singh and not to Iqbal Singh. Pointing out to the fact that the jamabandies for all the subsequent years stood jointly in the names of Gurnam Singh and Iqbal Singh, the counsel would argue that the revenue entries are not documents of title and therefore, joint entries in the names of brothers could not vest the property with his younger brother when he was not really the owner. It is a settled law that the members of Hindu Family are joint and any property which is asserted to be a joint family property was a joint property must be proved by the person asserting to such joint enjoyment. If the property was, therefore, granted exclusively in the name of one of the brothers through a document of the year 1957 and subsequently a sanad was also issued, the presumption shall always be that it belonged to the grantee. Indeed, the statement of law is that a Government grant is personal to the person in whose favour the grant is made and it shall not belong to the family. “Estate inferred by government......joint property (Mayne on Hindu Law (2012 Edn., Bharat Publications).”
