Vandana Kasrekar, J.

The petitioner has filed the present writ petition challenging the order passed by Board of Revenue dated 6th June, 1996 (Annexure P-1) passed in Case No. A/11-4/R/342/96 by which the order passed by the Competent Authority under M.P. Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 has been set aside and the Board has held that the transaction in respect of 357 acres of land by the holder i.e. respondent No.15 in favour of respondents No.1 to 14 is legal and valid and the transactions were not void transactions.

2. The brief facts of the case are that one N.R. Abbot was the owner of the disputed land i.e. respondent No.15 who had executed fourteen sale deeds dated 03/07/1972 in favour of the respondents/purchasers between 01/01/1971 to 07/03/1974. The Competent Authority under M.P. Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 (hereinafter referred to as the Act') declared these transactions as void transactions under Section 4 of the Act. The respondents/purchasers preferred an appeal against the said order passed by the Competent Authority and the Board of Revenue vide order dated 7/9/1977 remanded the matter back to the Competent Authority. The Competent Aut