( 1 ) THIS Common Judgment will dispose of all the companion writ petitions, for the question involved is common between the parties. The respondent in the respective writ petition claim to be permanent tenants in respect of the land occupied by them, which were originally Inam land of Class V. Inam was abolished and the land came to be regranted to the predecessor of the petitioner prior to Tillers' Day, i. e. 1st April, 1957. In other words, the predecessor of the petitioner, Smt. Saraswatibai wife of Kedarrao ghadage, was the occupant landlady of suit land and was widow on the Tillers' day, who, later on, died in the year, 1975. As the predecessor of the petitioner was widow on the Tillers' Day, the proceedings in respect of the suit lands under section 32g of the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act")* which had commenced before the A. L. T.-1, tasgaon, were postponed on 8th May, 1961. Accordingly, after the death of predecessor of the petitioner, the landlady, proceedings under section 32f of the act were commenced. The Additional Tahsildar and A. L. T.-l, Tasgaon, by his judgment and order dated 31st May, 1982 took the v