Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, J.

(1) THE appellant owned a land, survey No. 72, at Shiroli in the district of Kolhapur. The land was held by the appellant for the performance of miscellaneous inferior services and was classified as a Huzur Sanadi Inam land. Respondents have been in possession of a portion of the land as tenants and were declared as purchasers under the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, LXVII of 1948, (hereinafter called the Tenancy Act). Consequent upon the declaration, the Agricultural Lands tribunal, Hatkanagale, fixed the price of the land under S. 32G of the Tenancy Act. That decision was confirmed in appeal by the Special Deputy Collector, Kolhapur, and in revision by the Maharashtra Revenue tribunal. The appellant filed a petition in the Bombay High court under Article 227 of the Constitution to challenge the decision of the revenue tribunal but that petition was dismissed summarily by a learned Single Judge. This appeal by special leave is directed against the order of the High court.

(2) THE Tenancy Act provides by S. 32 that on 1/04/1957, called the "tillers day", every tenant shall, subject to certain conditions, be deemed to have purchased fro