K.M. Natarajan, J.

1. This revision has been preferred by the Authorised Officer, Land Reforms, Trichi against the order passed by the Land Tribunal, Thanjavur allowing the appeal filed by the landholder.

2. The main point for consideration in this appeal is:

Whether the Authorised Officer is entitled to reopen his earlier decision after obtaining the opinion of the Government Pleader treating the trust as a religious trust of public nature and that the Act is not applicable to the said trust.

3. It is brought to my notice that this Court had occasion to consider the said question in a number of decisions and it has been held in Radhakrishna v. Authorised Officer, Land Reforms, Kancheepuram (1986)2 M.L.J. 57 : 99 L.W. 351, where V. Ramaswami, J., has held as follows:

There is no provision in the Act which enables the Authorised Officer to review his earlier order or to reopen a closed issue.

Similar view was taken by two learned Judge is Radhakrishna v. Authorised Officer, Land Reforms Kancheepuram (1986)2 M.LJ. 57 : 99 L.W. 351 and Ganesan v. Authorised Officer Land Reforms 90 L.W.597. In the second decision Nainar Sundaram, J, has held as follows:

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