JUDGMENT

Hemant Gupta, J.

The present appeals are directed against an order passed by the High Court of Judicature at Andhra Pradesh on 25.4.2011 whereby an order passed by the Special Court, Hyderabad [For short, the Tribunal'] under the Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 1982 [For short, the 'Act'] on 19.9.2008 was not interfered with.

2. Brief facts leading to the present appeals are that the respondent Nos. 1 to 6 [Hereinafter referred to as the 'applicants'] being legal heirs of Late Sri S.V. Srinivasulu Naidu filed an application under Section 8 of the Act before the Tribunal alleging that the land measuring 7128.5 sq. yards in Survey No. 299/2 (old Survey No. 403/1), Ward No. 8, Block-3, Shaikpet Village, Hyderabad, is the land grabbed by the Union of India. It was pleaded that a notification is required under Section 8(6) of the Act, which was published in the extra ordinary Gazette of Andhra Pradesh on 22.1.2004 but no objections against the same were received. The applicants alleged that their father had purchased 2 acres 27 guntas of land in Survey No. 299/2 from