JUDGMENT

A. K. Patnaik, J. —

Delay in filing of SLP (C) No.23821 of 2008 is condoned.

2. Leave granted.

3. These appeals are against two separate orders dated 04.06.2007 and 05.06.2007 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh in Writ Petition No.8613 of 2002 and Writ Petition No.18642 of 2004 respectively and raise two common questions of law whether it is mandatory for the Special Tribunal or the Special Court to call for a report of the Mandal Revenue Officer before taking cognizance of a case under the Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 1982 (for short ‘the Act’) and whether it is mandatory for the Special Tribunal or the Special Court to publish a notification in the Gazette notifying the fact of cognizance of a case under the Act.

4. The facts in Civil Appeal arising out of SLP (C) No.23821 of 2008 are that the appellant R.S. Murthy filed L.G.O.P. No.570 of 1992 before the Special Tribunal, Ranga Reddy District, alleging that the respondents German Reddy and Tresa German Reddy had demolished the compound wall of the appellant constructed over his land measuring 606 sq. yards in Plot No.439 in Survey No. 33 of Guttalabegumpet Village in Ran