JUDGMENT

K.R. Mohapatra, J. - The Petitioners in all these writ petitions assail the orders of Settlement Authorities under the Orissa Survey and Settlement Act, 1958 (for short 'the Act, 1958'). Although the facts in each of these writ petitions are slightly different from each other, but the question of law involved in all these writ petitions being one and the same, those are taken up together for proper adjudication.

2. W.P.(C) No. 8774 of 2019 has been filed assailing the order dated 23rd March, 2013 passed by the Assistant Settlement Officer, Camp at Rental Colony, Bhubaneswar-Opposite Party No.2 in Objection Case No. 9121/942 of 2012, whereby he rejected the claim of the Petitioner to record Hal Plot No. 648 to an extent of Hc.0.2023 and Plot No. 649 to an extent of Hc.0.3682 under Khata No.894 in mouza Sundarpur and directed to record the same in Government Khata under Abada Jogya Anabadi status.

2.1 The averments made in the said writ petition reveal that one Harekrushna Samantaray made an application for lease of a piece of Government land, which was registered as W.L. Case No. 1356 of 1978. The said W.L. Case was allowed vide order dated 16th April, 1980 and R.O.R. in resp