SYED SHAH MOHAMMED QUADRI, J.

( 1 ) THE appellants in L. P. A. No. 61 of 1986 are respondents 3 and 4 in C. R. P. No. 665 of 1994 and the petitioners in the said C. R. P. are respondents 1,2 and 4 in the L. P. A.

( 2 ) THE subject matter of dispute in these two cases is the same. The controversy is aboutan extent of 9 acres of land in Survey No. 91 of Bowenpally village of Secundera bad. The said land was an in am land, which was abolished under the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Area) Abolition of Inams Act (Act No. VIII of 1955), for short, "the Inams abolition Act". One Atchi Reddy was declared as a protected tenant of the said land under the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Area) Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act (Act No. XXI of 1950), for short, thetenancy Act". Claiming to be transfereesof the interest of the said protected tenant, Atchi Reddy, under a document said to have been executed by him on Februarys, 1963 (Ex. A. 1)in favour of the appellants, they asserted to be in possession of the land. Respondents 1 to 3 and 7 to 11, are heirs of one Sattaiah who set up a rival claim that he was in possession of the said land after the said protected tenant surrendered his tenancy rights, un

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