ORDER :

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 8473 OF 2003

1. The instant appeal is directed against the Judgment dated 29.03.2000 in Writ Petition No. 24706 of 1996 by which the prayers made by the appellants to declare that the action of the District Collector Rangha Reddy District, in seeking to evict them from the lands bearing Survey Nos. 130 to 133 of Village Fathenagar, Mandal Balanagar, District Rangha Reddy, A.P. which are in their possession, by demolishing the residential houses/business premises situated in those survey numbers, is arbitrary, illegal, violative of principles of natural justice and violative of their fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 14 of the Constitution and to issue consequential direction to the respondents not to interfere with their peaceful possession of the residential houses/business premises located in those survey numbers as well as to set aside the order dated 20.01.1992 rendered in LGC No. 3 of 1988 passed by the Special Court established under A.P. Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act 1982 (the Act, for short) declaring them to be land grabbers, under the Act, are rejected.

2. The appellants claim that they had derived title to the lands in question through o