JUDGMENT - KHANWILKAR A.M., J.:---This writ petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India takes exception to the order passed by the Maharashtra Revenue Tribunal, Pune dated 27th August, 1987 in Revision Application No. M.R.T./K.P./96/84.

2. The land in question in the present proceeding is admeasuring 8 acres 20 gunthas out of Gat No. 37 of Village Talanduge, Taluka Hatkanangale, District Kolhapur. The petitioners claim that they were tenants in respect of the said land prior to 1957, for which reason they had become deemed purchasers on the tillers day (1-4-1957). On that premises, application was filed by the petitioners under section 32-G of the Bombay Tenancy Agricultural Lands Act. The Additional Tahsildar and A.L.T. Hatkanangale by order dated 20th September, 1982 allowed the said application and held that the petitioners were tenants on the tillers day and have become deemed purchasers. As a consequence of that declaration, the authority determined the purchase price in respect of the suit lands and also provided for time to pay the said amount. The first authority the Tahsildar, for recording the finding that the petitioners were tenants on the tillers day, ess

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