JUDGMENT - V.K. BARDE, J.:---The petitioners have contended that land Survey No. 157, now Block No. 371, situated at village Manjrath, Taluka Manjleaon, District Beed, was in the name of their father Anantrao Upadhya, who died in the year 1948. The said land was not a madad mash land or a service inam land, but it was a community service inam land. District Beed was the part of erstwhile Hyderabad State. The Hyderabad Abolition of Inams and Cash Grants Act, 1954 (hereinafter referred to as "the Inam Abolition Act") came into force on its publication in Official Gazette on 28th July, 1955. The Inam Abolition Act had received the assent of the President of India on 16th July, 1955. The Inam Abolition Act was adopted by the Bombay (Hyderabad Area) Adoption of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1956; it was further amended by the Bombay Act No. 64 of 1959, adopted and modified further by the Maharashtra Adoption of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960; and, now, it is having the title, "Hyderabad Abolition of Inams (and Cash Grants) Act, 1954. The petitioners have contended that there was a dispute with respect to the date of possession for grant of occupancy right

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