( 1 ) PRACTICALLY identical orders are challenged in all these petitions. Common questions of law and fact are found arising in all of them. I have, therefore, thought it fit to dispose of all of them by this common judgment of mine.

( 2 ) THE petitioner in each case has challenged the order passed by the Deputy collector of Dabhoi sometime in August/september 1983 as affirmed in appeal by the Collector of Baroda sometime in February 1984 as affirmed in further revision by the State Government (the respondent herein) by the order passed sometime on 11th January 1988. By his impugned order, the Deputy Collector at Dabhoi cancelled the mutation entry made and certified in the record of right pertaining to the subject-matter in each petition sometime during April to September 1981.

( 3 ) THE facts giving rise to these petitions move in a narrow compass. Each petitioner purchased the respective subject-matter of each petition by a registered sale deed executed during March and April 1981. Thereafter each petitioner moved the concerned Talati for mutation of his name in the record of right pertaining to the subject-matter of each petition. In each case the entry was mad