JUDGMENT:- In the above Petition, the Petitioner who is the owner of the property in question takes exception to the judgment and order dated 31.3.1998 passed by the Deputy Collector and S.D.O., Ponda Goa, and the judgment and order dated 27.12.2002 passed by the learned President of Administrative Tribunal, Goa by which the judgment and order passed by the Deputy Collector has been confirmed.

The issue which arises is as to whether the Respondent No.1 herein is entitled to be registered as a "mundkar" in terms of Section 29 of the Goa, Daman and Diu Mundkar's (Protection from Eviction) Act, 1975 (hereinafter referred to as 'the said Act').

2. The factual matrix can be stated thus:

The Respondent No.1 herein is the wife of one Balaram N. Nipanikar who had filed an application for registering him as a mundkar of the dwelling house bearing house No.66 w-6 situated in survey No. 163/4 of Village Ponda which was situated in the property of the bhatkar i.e. the Petitioner abovenamed. The said application filed by the husband of the Respondent No.1 came to be opposed by the Petitioner abovenamed by filing a written statement. It was the case of the Applicant in the said application for regi

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