The Commissioner, Survey, Settlement and Land Records, Government of Andhra Pradesh and two others are the appellants in this appeal filed against the order dated 10.06.2003 of the learned single Judge setting aside the order of the Commissioner who had confirmed the orders passed by the Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) and Inams Special Deputy Tahsildar (SDT, for brevity). The core issue in this appeal is whether the respondents’ claim for grant of patta in respect of waste land admeasuring Acs.44.68 (hereafter, petition schedule land) under Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1956 (the Inams Act, for brevity) was validly rejected by the competent authority on the ground that it is a waste land which stood transferred and vested in the Government under Section 2-A of the Inams Act. For the sake of convenience, we refer to the parties as in the writ petition.

Background

2. Jadagogula Agraharam, Hamlet of Juvvaladinne Village with an extent of Acs.812.33 in survey No.321/B is inam village. The petitioners claim that their grandfather purchased Acs.111.52 under registered sale deed dated 25.11.1938 from the original inamdars. Ag