ORDER

1. Delay condoned. Leave granted. Appellant, the Mandal Revenue Officer, Parawada Mandal, Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh, is aggrieved and dissatisfied by the order dated 5-2-2009, passed in Sanapathi Appalanaidu v. Mandal Revenue Officer WAMP No. 764 of 2009 in Writ Appeal No. 912 of 2007, order dated 5-2-2009 (AP) and another order dated 20-4-2009 in Review WAMP No. 1655 of 2008 in WA (SR) No. 85456 of 2008, both passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature of Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad.

2. Looking to the nature of arguments advanced before us, it is neither necessary nor proper to go into the long and chequered history of the case, which had commenced in the year 1986, on account of proceedings initiated by the Settlement Officer, Visakhapatnam, in regard to application filed by Senapati Appalanaidu and others (for short hereinafter called “Senapati Group”), against Pakki Rajaram Mohan Roy and others (for short hereinafter called “Pakki Group”), under Section 56(1)(c) of the Estates Abolition Act, 1948. In the said proceedings, admittedly, appellant State was not a party.

3. On consideration of the submissions advanced by the aforesaid parties befor