( 1 ) IN this case the judgment-debtor is the petitioner. He claims that the debt gets extinguished by operation of Section 4 of the andhra Pradesh Agricultural Indebtedness (Relief) Act, 7 of 1977, herein after referred to as the act Admittedly he is a mason and the lower court has held that he does not come within the definition of Section 3 (r) of the Act, In this Revision Sri T. S. Harinath, the learned counsel for the petitioner, contends that the view of the lower court is incorrect and it requires a revision by this court. To appreciate this contention it is necessary to extract Section 3 (r) of the Act which reads as under. "rural artisan, means a person who does not hold any agricultural land and whose principal means of livelihood is production or repair of tradition tools, implements and other articles or things used for agriculture or purposes ancillary thereto, and includes a person who normally earns his livlihood by practising a craft either by his own labour or by the labour of all or any of the members of his family in rural area. "

( 2 ) A reading of the above provision clearly indicates that the rural artisan is a person (1) who does not hold an