The Civil Revision Petition is filed under Section 90 of the A.P. (Telangana Area) Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1950 (hereafter called, the Tenancy Act) against the order of the Joint Collector, Nizamabad in case No.F1/1113/2003, dated 15-5-2005, whereby and whereunder the appellate authority, namely, the Joint Collector, disposed of the appeal filed by Peda Laxman (father of respondents 1 and 2 herein) and the third respondent in their favour, while setting aside the order of the Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO), dated 7-12-1998, by which the claim of the respondents for ownership certificate under Sections 35 and 37 of the Tenancy Act was rejected.

2. The factual matrix necessary to appreciate the contentions raised in the Civil Revision Petition may be noticed. The land admeasuring Acs. 17-08 guntas in survey Nos.25, 148, 192 and 341 situated at Rampoor village of Bodhan Mandal in Nizamabad District (hereafter called, the petition schedule land) was the absolute property of Narsa Reddy, father-in-law of the petitioner. After death of Narsa Reddy, the petitioners husband Vithoba succeeded to the property and died issueless sometime in 1950. He had a widow sister Rukma