JUDGMENT

Dt:21.04.2023 (per Hon‟ble Sri Justice R.Raghunandan Rao)

This Writ Appeal is filed against the Judgment of the learned Single Judge dated 04.08.2021 in W.P.No.8883 of 2020.

2. Heard Sri B. Seshibhushan Rao, learned Special Government Pleader attached to the office of the Learned Additional Advocate General for the Appellants and Sri Ambati Sudhakar Rao, learned counsel for the respondents.

3. Erragunta and Karakambadi villages of Renigunta Mandal of Chittoor District were Inam Estates regulated by the provisions of the A.P. (Andhra Area) Estates Land Act, 1908 and the A.P. (Andhra Area) Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1960 (hereinafter referred as Estate Abolition Act).

4. The Vendor of the petitioners, numbering 16 persons, in W.P.No.8883 of 2020, had been granted a rough patta, by the settlement officer, in the proceedings instituted to grant a ryothwari patta, under the provisions of the Estate Abolition Act. The title of the petitioners over the lands held by them in Sy.Nos.167 and 168 of Erragunta village and Sy.Nos.170, 341 and 342 of Karakambadi village, is traced to this rough patta given to their predecessor in title. Writ Petitioners 1 to 3 (in