JUDGMENT

1. Heard Sri Virupaksha Dattatreya Gouda, learned Counsel for the Writ Petitioners and Sri B. Sashibhushan Rao, learned Government Pleader attached to the Office of Additional Advocate General for Respondents.

2. The prayer made in the Writ Petition is as under: "...to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Certiorari calling for the records in Proceedings No.V2/101/2013, dtd. 6/2/2014 of Commissioner of Appeals in the office of the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad and set aside the same as being illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable and contrary to the law laid down by this Hon'ble Court and also contrary to the provisions of Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1956 and issue a consequential direction directing the respondents not to interfere with the rights of the petitioners over the land in Survey No.173/1 admeasuring Ac.2.17 cents and 173/3P admeasuring Ac.6.07 cents situated at Konka Chennaiahgunta Village of Tirupati Urban Mandal, Chittoor district and pass such further or other orders ....".

3. The facts as stated by the Writ Petitioners are as under:

i. The petition subject property originally formed part of Inam village granted by Poligar, Thimmappanayanivaru vide Title Deed No.2942 in the year 1677. After several transactions, one Sri Kondapalli Chenga Reddy has purchased an extent of Acs.178.33 cents covered under Title Deed No.2942 through Registered Document No.703 of 1941 dtd. 17/8/1941 from the then Inamdar, Valluru Venkatapathy Chetty. In this document, it is pertinent to state that the specific boundaries have been mentioned with reference to the schedule property of Registered Document No.703 of 1941 as West and South of Thimminaidpalem village lands and North of Poolavanigunta and Jammivanipatteda lands and East to the lands of Tirupati and Korlakunta Villages.

ii. Writ Petitioners" vendor one Sri T. Krishnaiah has purchased an extent of Ac.6.07 cents from the Inamdars Sri Kondepalli Chenga Reddy, K. Govinda Reddy and Gurvaiah Chetty with Paimash No.8 and with sub-divisions A, C and D of Konka Chennaiahgunta Inam Village through Registered Document No.1156 of 1964 dtd. 17/4/1964.

iii. Sri T. Krishnaiah Chetty made a Claim Petition before the Inam Deputy Tahsildar, Chittoor for grant of Ryotwari Patta. The competent authority namely Inam Deputy Tahsildar, after conducting due enquiry, has passed Order vide Proceedings No.7 of 1983 dtd. 5/7/1983; and, Ryotwari Patta No.1 of 1983 dtd. 5/7/1983 was granted in respect of the land admeasuring Ac.6.07 cents in Sy.No.173/3 Part of Konka Chennaiahgunta Village (Ex.P.1). It is also stated that while passing Order dtd. 5/7/1983, the Inam Deputy Tahsildar held that the lands were under effective cultivation after inspecting the physical features of the land in question. Ryotwari Pattas were also issued by Inam Deputy Tahsildar and changes were duly incorporated in the Revenue Records i.e., Fair Adangal, and 10 (1) Adangal. While doing so, the Inam Deputy Tahsildar has also earmarked the subject land in sub-divisions and allotted the sub-division in favour of the vendor of the Writ Petitioners as Sy.No.173/4 admeasuring Ac.6.07 cents.

iv. The then Mandal Revenue Officer, Tirupati Urban Mandal, has issued a letter No.Roc.A2/349/86 dtd. 22/5/1986 addressed to the Sub-Registrar, Tirupati stating that there is no objection to register the land admeasuring an extent of Ac.6.07 cents in Sy.No.173/4 and consequently several registrations have taken place. The Sub-Registrar, Tirupati also gave a certificate stating that market value of the land in question is Rs.2, 17, 80, 000.00 per acre. In the year 1987, Ryotwari Passbook was also issued in the name of Sri T. Krishnaiah, who is the vendor of the Writ Petitioners. Sri T. Krishnaiah was also paying the land revenue. In the year 2004, the Writ Petitioners purchased the petition subject property through R