P. N. BHAGWATI, N. K. VAKIL, J.

( 1 ) THIS is a group of 12 Special Civil Applications Nos. 88 to 99 of 1964 wherein facts are similar and common questions of law are raised and will all be dealt with and disposed of by this common judgment. All the petitioners in this group of petitions are Ex-Inamdars of Khandoli village in Kalol Taluka of District Panch Mahals. The Bombay Personal Inam Abolition Act 1952 was applied to this inam village in 1955. But before that Record of Rights was prepared and was promulgated on the 29th April 1954. It is the case of the petitioners that a large number of tenants of the petitioners were arbitrarily shown as permanent tenants in the said record of rights even though they could not be held to be permanent tenants within the meaning of the provisions of the Bombay Land Revenue Code and the 12 tenants who are opponents Nos. 1 in the respective petitions before us were also entered as permanent tenants in the said record of rights. On behalf of the petitioners this entry made in the record of rights was challenged by an application dated the 30th of July 1954. This application was addressed to the Mamlatdar but it was filed before the Extra Aval Kark

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