T.Ch. Surya Rao,J.

The petitioner seeks a writ of Certiorari to quash the order, dated 16-11-2000, passed by the learned Special Court and the order dated 13-06-1997 passed by the learned Special Tribunal in L.G.A.No.30 of 1997 and L.G.O.P.No.5 of 1990 respectively after calling for the records pertaining thereto, on the premise that the orders have been passed without jurisdiction.

The unsuccessful respondent is the writ petitioner and the second respondent herein is the applicant.

The facts lie in a narrow compass: The applicant filed L.G.O.P.No.5 of 1990 on the file of the Chairman, Special Tribunal under the A.P. Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act-cum-District Judge, Adilabad, against the respondent under Section 7-A of the said Act. That application was filed on the premise that the applicant purchased the house bearing No.4-3-65 along with the appurtenant land under a registered sale deed dated 05-02-1969 and she was the owner thereof and that the respondent forcibly occupied the house and since then he had been in illegal and unauthorized possession of the said house and open land and therefore the respondent was a land grabber.

The respondent resisted that applicatio