N.N. Mathur, J.-These two special appeals are directed against the order of the learned Single Judge dated 15.07.2002, dismissing the writ petitions.

2. The relevant facts giving rise to the instant special appeals are that the respondents Ganga and Vela were allotted 5 bighas of land in Khasra No. 806 in village Kherwara on 21.06.1984 under the Rajasthan Land Revenue (Allotment of Land for Agricultural Purposes) Rules, 1970 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules of 1970). It is claimed by the respondents that the allotment was not under the Rules of 1970 but under the Rajasthan Land Revenue (Allotment of Unculturable Waste Land for Development of Private Forest) Rules, 1983. However, the mutation of the subject land was sanctioned in the name of allottees as late as on 06.08.1993. The appellants are the legal heirs of deceased Mawaji.

3. An application under Section 14(4) of the Rules of 1970 was filed for cancellation of the allotment in favour of the respondents Ganga and Vela in the Court of SDM. The deceased Vela set up the case stating inter alia that he was a landless person belonging to the Scheduled Tribe. He was in cultivatory possession of the subject land for la