JUDGMENT - M.S. DESHPANDE, J.:---This writ petition is directed against the order passed by the Maharashtra Revenue Tribunal reviewing its earlier order passed in revision and holding that the petitioner was in possession of the suit lands for the first time in 1971-72 and not in 1970-71 as per its finding recorded while deciding the revision application.

2. The petitioner filed an application under section 50 of the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Vidarbha Region) Act ('Vidarbha Tenancy Act', for short) before the Agricultural Lands Tribunal claiming that he was in possession of Survey Nos. 81, 83 96/3 and 98/1, total area 58.33 acres of Belghat from the land-holder Champabai and continued to be tenant until 1974-75. He gave a statutory notice to the landholder making an offer to purchase the land on 1-11-1974. As no sale-deed was executed by the landholder, the petitioner filed an application to the Additional Tahsildar and Agricultural Lands Tribunal for the purchase of the land and fixation of price. That application was not opposed by the landholder, but the Additional Tahsildar found that the petitioner was tenant only from the year 1971-72 and that since the offer to p

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