(Per V.V.S. Rao, J.)

1. The writ petition is filed assailing the judgment dated 07.02.2000 in L.G.A.Nos.21 and 23 of 1999 of the Special Court under the Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 1982 (the Act, for brevity), confirming the judgment appealed. Those two cross appeals were filed by the parties to O.P.333 of 1989 on the file of the Court of the Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad (hereafter referred to as the primary Tribunal), whereby and whereunder it was held that the second respondent herein is the owner of land admeasuring 600 square yards in plot No.6, survey No.48 situated at Madannapet Village, Hyderabad (hereafter called, the petition schedule property), and further declaring that petitioners herein grabbed the petition schedule land and directing them to pay the value of land as recorded in the basic value register to the extent of the land of the second respondent herein. In this order, the parties are referred to as they are arrayed before the primary Tribunal.

2. Mohd.Khaiser Mohiuddin was the owner of considerable extent of land in survey No.48 of Madannapet Village. He got the layout approved (Veeraswamy layout) and sold house plots.