JUDGMENT - D.R. DHANUKA, J.:---By this petition filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India, the petitioners have impugned order dated. 8th September, 1983 passed by the delegate of the Administrator exercising Appellate and Revisional powers of the Administrator under the Dadra and Nagar Haveli Land Reforms Regulations in Revision Application No. 1 of 1983 and also order dated 31st day of December 1982 passed by the Dy. Collector (L.R.) Silvassa in Appeal No. 13 of 1976. By the impugned order dated 8th September, 1983, the revisional authority held that the revision application preferred by the applicants was not competent in law in view of amendment to section 46 of Dadra and Nagar Haveli Land Reforms Regulations. We propose to examine the challenge made to the Appellate order dated 31st December, 1982 passed by the Dy. Collector in the above referred appeal.

2. For the reasons indicated below the petition is dismissed.

3. It must be stated at the outset that the respondents have already taken possession of land in dispute and distributed the same amongst large number of landless agricultural labourers as permissible under the above referred regulations.

4. The petitioner No. 1

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