( 1 ) THE se writ petitions are posted before this Bench on receipt of the opinion of a Full bench consisting of five Judges reported in N. Bujjanna V. Thansildar, Rapur, 1980 I Andh WR 235: AIR 1980 Andh pra 118.

( 2 ) THE relevant facts are stated in the Judgment dated 7-7-1978 of the Full Bench, referring it to a Fuller Bench and they are also in the judgment of the Fuller Bench and it is unnecessary to repeat them in detail. However, a few facts may briefly be stated.

( 3 ) THE Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area ) Inams ( Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act (Act No. XXXVII of 1956) for short, the Act) was amended by the introduction of S. 2- A in the following terms:-"notwithstanding anything contained in this Act all Communal lands and porambokes, grazing lands, waste lands, forest lands, mines and ferries in the inam lands shall stand transferred to the Government and vest in them free of all encumbrances"

( 4 ) NOTICES were issued to several inamdars by the concerned officers of the Government that various categories of lands held by the inamdars which were enumerated in Section 2-A of the Act, vested in the Government and they were therefore asked to surrende