JUDGMENT :

B.N. Mahapatra, J. - The same Petitioners have filed these five Writ Petitions challenging the Orders Dated 27.02.1999 (Annexure-1) passed in Revision Case Nos. 6, 13, 5, 14 and 8 of 1985 under the Orissa Government Land Settlement Act, 1962 (hereinafter referred to as 'OGLS Act') by which the Opposite Party No. 3-Additional District Magistrate, Cuttack (hereinafter referred to as "Revisional Authority") cancelled the original lease granted in favour of Opposite Party No. 5 whereby the sale deeds executed by said Opposite Party No. 5 in favour of one Chinmayee Bala (wife of Petitioner No. 1 and mother of Petitioners 2 to 6) became void on the ground that such action of Opposite Party No. 3 is wholly illegal and violative of the conditions laid down in the approved lease principles of the Government Circulars dated 20.10.1972 and 06.04.1974.

In all these Writ Petitions since the issues involved are identical, with the consent of Learned Counsel for the parties, they are heard together and disposed of by this common Judgment.

2. Shorn of unnecessary details, the facts and circumstances giving rise to these Writ Petitions are that Opposite Party No. 5 along with others had app