JUDGMENT :

1. The issues involved in all the petitions are interconnected, overlapping and outcome of one writ petition, will have a bearing on the others. Therefore, all the writ petitions are heard together and are being disposed of by this common CAV judgment.

2. Though facts are common; challenge in all the three writ petitions varies, and gist in sequential order of events, is set out hereunder for ease of reference

i. In Special Civil Application No.3537 of 2013, the issue pertains to the entry no.173, which came to be mutated in the revenue record apropos the sale deed dated 23.2.1959 executed in favour of the father of the petitioner. The said entry was not certified and was cancelled by an order dated 19.2.1961 passed by the Mamlatdar, Umrala. The said order was challenged before the Collector, Bhavnagar in the year 1998, i.e. after a period of 38 years, and the appeal came to be rejected vide order dated 13.10.2000, unsuccessfully challenged before the Special Secretary, Revenue Department (Appeals).

ii. In Special Civil Application No.3540 of 2013, the issue pertains to the order dated 8.10.1984 passed by the Deputy Collector, Palitana cancelling the transaction of sale in f