J.B. PARDIWALA, J.

1. The draft amendment is allowed. The same shall be carried out forthwith.

2. By this application under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, the applicants call in question the legality and validity of the order dated 11th April 2017, by which the Special Secretary of the Revenue Department (Appeals) at Ahmedabad rejected the revision application filed by the applicants, thereby affirming the order passed by the Collector dated 12th October 2015.

3. The dispute between the parties pertains to mutation of entry bearing survey No. 1486 dated 3rd November 1993. The case of the applicants herein is that they have right, title and interest in the land in question and they had not relinquished their share in the property at any point of time in favour of the private respondents. The entry bearing survey No. 1486 came to be certified by the Mamlatdar on 3rd November 1993.

4. For the first time, after a period of almost nineteen years, the applicants questioned the entry before the Deputy Collector. Indisputably, the appeal was filed questioning the entry without filing any application for condonation of delay. There is a statutory time period prescribed in the