ORDER:- This is a petition filed under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India. The petitioner prays to quash the orders passed by the Mamlatdar, the Collector and the Revenue Secretary.

2. For the disposal of this petition the only facts necessary to be mentioned are these : The petitioner took on lease land, plot No. 448, situate at Seraulim in auction by the Comunidade of Seraulim in 1961. Comunidade of Seraulim is the owner of that land. Previous to the petitioner taking the land on lease one Reniga Coutinho was cultivating that land on lease. That lady is the sister of respondent No. 6 herein. After the petitioner took the land on lease, he started cultivating it as lessee. Reniga Coutinho filed application before the Lt. Governor, Goa, Daman and Diu on 27-9-1963 to give the land in dispute to her stating that she was cultivating that land as lessee for number of years and that she was maintaining herself on that land. On that application it is said that the Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu passed orders that Reniga Coutinho be treated as lessee of the land in dispute. The petitioner herein then applied to the Administrator of Comunidades through application dated

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