The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court was hearing a petition filed by Bachchan challenging the order of the additional commissioner of Faizabad quashing allotment of the farmland to him in Barabanki in Baulatpur village during the previous Samajwadi Party regime.

Government counsel D K Upadhyaya, while arguing against Bachchan's petition, submitted that the actor had failed to disclose the source of his claim over the land.

"It is a case of forgery in the revenue records," Upadhyaya told the single Bench of Justice A N Verma.

The counsel for Bachchan would advance his arguments on Thursday.

Bachchan, in an apparent bid to wriggle out of the controversy surrounding allotment of the farmland, had abandoned his claim over the plot and filed an affidavit to in the Lucknow Bench on October 12.