22 of 1951.
Hence this appeal.
Respondent No.
95 a of 1948 was directed against the 7th respondent.
200 00 of land to respondents 2 to 5.
By order dated 6th August 1952 both the petitions were dismissed by a single Judge of the Madras High Court.
261 of 1952 wherein it was held that the petitioners as ryots had numberright to maintain the petition but reasonable opportunity should be given to the State to get transposed as the petitioner.
Thereafter the said petition was split into two parts, O.P. 95/1943 being directed against respondents 1 to 6 while O.P. No.
This order was how ever set aside in a Letters Patent Appeal filed by respondents 1 to 5 No.
6 granted a third patta for Ac.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated March 24, 1965 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Civil Revision Petition No.
100 00 of land on November 9, 1944.
Another patta was similarly granted to the appellant in respect of Ac.
By a judgment dated November 30, 1960 the District Judge allowed the petition negativing the companytentions of the respondent but holding that the lands were forest lands and transfers thereof were void.
The Act came into force on October 25, 1947.
This was numbered as C.R.P. No.
966 of 1962.
A civil Revision Petition was filed in the High Court of Madras by respondents 1 to 5 against the order of the District Judge.
On October 15, 1948 Original Petition No.
7 filed a Miscellaneous Petition No.
Against this the State Government filed a Revision Petition in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh numbering 1555 of 1955.
95 of 1948 was filed in the District Court of Eluru by two ryots for a declaration that the alienations were void and did number companyfer any rights on the alienees.
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The appellant and others filed Civil Revision Petitions in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh which were disposed of and dismissed by a companymon judgment dated August 24, 1965.
The State Government thereafter got itself transposed as the petitioner.
The petitions were disposed of by an order of the District Judge dated July 18, 1950 holding that lands companyered by the pattas were forest lands and all the alienations were void and inoperative.
The High Court held that the dismissal of the petition on the ground of repeal of the Act was improper and that the petition should be disposed of on the merits and remitted the matter to the District Judge.
95 of 1948 filed under S. 4 3 and 4 of the Andhra Pradesh Andhra Area Estates Communal Forest and Private Lands Prohibition of Alienation Act, 1947 hereinafter called the Act .
V. V. Nair, for the appellant.
614 of 1966.
The said respondent who was a big landholder granted a patta to his wife, 7th respondent, for Ac.
The District Court however held that he petition was number maintainable by reason of the repeal of the Act by reason of the passing of a subsequent Act, XXVI of 1948 styled the Madras Estates Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari Act, 1948, hereinafter referred to as the Act of 1948.
Ram Reddy and B. Parthasarathy, for the respondent.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Mitter, J. This appeal by special leave is from a companymon judgment and order of the High Court of Madras disposing of three Revision Applications arising out of O.P. No.
90 00 of land on November 25, 1944 On the same day, respondent No.
9534 of 1950 in the High Court of Madras.
