JUDGMENT :

GOPALA RAO EKBOTE, J.:— This revision petition is directed against an order of the District Collector, Khammam given on 12-9-1967 whereby he allowed the appeal and dismissed the petition filed by the petitioner under Section 98 of the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Area) Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, hereinafter called “the Act”. The material facts in order to appreciate the contention raised before us may briefly be stated.

2. The petitioner filed an application under Section 98 read with Section 47 of the Act for eviction of the respondents alleging inter alia that the petitioner is the pattadar of S. No. 531 measuring 2 acres and 3 guntas and S. No. 532 measuring 3 acre and 2 guntas. The 1st respondent cultivated the said lands in the year 1952 and illegally with the collusion of the patwari got the entry in the village pahani as ‘Kharidi’ in column No. 15. The 1st respondent landholder sold the suit land to one Vellanka Chalapalhi Rao in 1954. It is further alleged that the 1st and 2nd respondents in collusion with the patwari removed the name of the petitioner in the Kh??? Pahani and got inserted the name of the 2nd respondent in column 13 of the Kh??? Pahani. It i