C.M. LODHA, C.J.—This writ petition under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India is directed against two orders of the Board of Revenue for Rajasthan; one by the Single Member of the Board (Ex.5) dated January 21, 1969 and the other by the Division Bench of the Board (Ex.6) dated January 28, 1977, whereby the Board held that the petitioners are not entitled to get their names recorded in record of rights in respect of land measuring 319 Bighas and 2 Biswas, in Khasra No. 609, situated in Mouza Gangrar.

2. It is the admitted case of the parties that Mouza Gangrar was a Jagir village of Rao Manohar Singhji of Bedla, who, by a registered sale-deed dated May 24, 1958 sold the land in question to the petitioners. The petitioners case is that on resumption of the Jagir of Rao Manohar Singhji with effect from August 21, 1954, the land in question became his "Khatedari" land under section 10 of the Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952. It appears that after purchasing the land in question, the petitioners made an application to the Gram Panchayat, for mutating their names as "khatedars" in place of Rao Manohar Singhji, but, under the instructions of the Collector of the

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