P. K. MOHANTY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner assails the impugned orders passed by the authorities under the Orissa Land Reforms Act (hereinafter referred to as "the O. L. R. Act") under S. 23-A of the O. L. R. Act in Annexures 2 to 4.

( 2 ) THE short fact of the petitioner's case is that opposite parties 1 to 5 and one Sadasib Majhi (since dead), predecessor-in-interest of opposite parties 6 to 9, filed O. L. R. Case No. 7 of 1980 before the Revenue Officer under S. 23-A of the O. L. R. Act, inter alia, on the ground that the present petitioner has obtained four Regd. sale deeds dated 18-4-1963, 3-9-1963, 15-3-1965 and 23-3-1965 in respect of Schedule-A properties from opposite party No. 1 and late Nitya Majhi, the predecessor-in-interest of opposite parties 3 to 9 without prior permission of the Revenue Authorities as required under S. 7 (b) (i) of the Orissa Merged States (Laws) Act, 1950 and continuing is illegal and unauthorised possession of the disputed land and as such should be evicted and possession restored to. It was also alleged that in order to avoid eviction, the petitioner has contained fraudulent sale deeds in 1979, which was false document and declared as such. The pe