JUDGMENT

Brijesh Kumar, J.-The judgment of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh upholding the judgment and order passed by the Special Court under the Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 1982 (for short the Act ) directing the appellant to handover the possession of the land to respondent No. 3 herein Dr. Guru Bhagavathula Rama Krishna Rao, has been impugned.

2. The relevant facts leading to the dispute between the parties are that according to the appellant he had purchased the land in dispute by means of a registered sale deed dated 5.2.1994 executed on behalf of respondent No. 3 by his General Power of Attorney holder S. Prabhakara Rao. He was granted permit by the appropriate authorities for construction over the land in the month of March, 1994 whereafter the appellant started construction and had already raised pillars etc. when an objection was raised by Tirupathiah who claimed to be the General Power of Attorney holder of the respondent No. 3. The case of Tirupathiah was that no one else including S. Prabhakara Rao had any right to transfer the property. However, since obstruction was being created to the construction undertaken by the appellant over the land in disp