These two writ petitions have been filed with identical grievance against the same proceeding of the Joint Collector (J), Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad(hereinafter referred to as ‘the Joint Collector’).

There is a serious dispute among the petitioners in these writ petitions and the private respondents with respect to the land in Survey No.69 of Miyapur Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. Based on the preliminary decree, dated 29.12.2000, in O.S.No.38 of 1993, on the file of the learned I Additional District Judge, Ranga Reddy District filed for partition, the private respondents have approached the Joint Collector invoking his revisional jurisdiction under Section 9 of the A.P.Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 (for short ‘the Act’) for mutation of their names in the record of rights. Though the petitioners in either of the writ petitions were not made parties to the revision petition, the petitioners in W.P.No.8958 of 2013 filed their objections, both on merits and also on the maintainability of the revision petition before the Joint Collector. The Joint Collector by the impugned order, while holding that the private respondents are ent