ANANTANARAYANA AYYAR, J.

( 1 ) SRIDHARA Reddy filed Writ petition No. 106 praying for the issue of a writ in the nature of Mandamus or such other appropriate writ, direction or order as may be deemed necessary to restrain respondents 1 and 2 from imposing and demanding a sum of Rs. 23,088 towards Government loss or fine and to restrain them from collecting the said sum as arrears of land revenue. This sum included a sum of Rs. 11,250 by way of penalty. There were three respondents in the said Writ Petition viz. . the Conservator of Forests. Divisional Forest Officer and Tahsildar.

( 2 ) SRIDHARA Reddy filed another Writ Petition No. 107 of 1962 against the same respondents for similar relief regarding another sum of Rs. 27,949 which included a penalty of Rs. 14,500.

( 3 ) THE respondents represented by the learned IIIrd Government Pleader, contested the two Writ Petitions after filing counter in each of them.

( 4 ) OUR learned brother. Gopal Rao, Ekbote J heard both the Writ Petitions together by common consent and passed a common judgment allowing both the Writ Petitions only to the extent of reducing the compensation (penalty) in each case to a sum of Rs. 100.

( 5 ) THE responden

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