Dinesh Maheshwari, J.-This writ petition has been submitted questioning the legality of the letters/ orders dated 24.02.2005 and 19.08.2004 (placed on record collectively as Annexure-2) whereby a patta issued to the petitioners by the Gram Panchayat, Lohawat B.B. On 210.1999 is purported to be cancelled.

2. By the letter dated 24.02.2005, the Sarpanch of the said Gram Panchayat has informed the petitioners that the patta granted to them had been cancelled by the Panchayati Raj Department. The said letter reads thus,-

3. The letter/order dated 19.08.2004 that has been endorsed with the aforesaid letter dated 24.02.2005 and whereby the patta has allegedly been cancelled is a letter emanating from the Panchayati Raj Department, Government of Rajasthan and is addressed to the Additional Chief Executive Officer of Zila Parishad, Jodhpur and reads thus,-

4. The petitioners have submitted that they were issued patta by the aforesaid Gram Panchayat on 210.1999 as their families and forefathers were residing at the land in question since time immemorial and having ancestral house constructed on it. According to the petitioners, they were surprised to receive the letter dated 24.02.