his possession, for which entry was made by the Settlement Department in Samwat Year 1995. With coming into force of the Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952, Shri Bhairo Singh became Khatedar of the land in question. At the time of coming into force of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act in the year 1955, the land continued to be in his possession and was entered in the Revenue record as Khud Kast land of Thikana Gogunda. Thus, Shri Bairo Singh claims to have acquired Khatedari rights by virtue of Section 15 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act. A parcel of land from these two Khasras was transferred to the appellant writ petitioners by virtue of registered sale deed executed in the year 1963. The disputed mutation entry No.95 was sanctioned as a consequence of the registered sale deed. However, long before that in the year 1945 and 1946, the Government of Mewar issued the notifications dated 21.10.1945 and 27.12.1946 declaring the lands of the questioned Khasras in the Village Majawad to be Forest area. The Additional Collector, Udaipur issued notices to the petitioners (purchasers) calling upon them to show cause as to why reference be not made for cancellation of the mutation entry No.95 on the basis of the notifications dated 21.10.1945 and 27.12.1946. This action was taken on the application of the Forest Department authorities, which banked upon the gazette notifications dated 21.10.1945 and 27.12.1946 issued by the then Mewar Government declaring the land in question to be Forest land. Accordingly, reference was made vide order dated 30.10.1982. The Board of Revenue accepted the reference by the order dated 13.07.1989 and declared the mutation entry to be illegal as the land could not have been transferred by Shri Bhairo Singh, who had no title thereof. The appellants unsuccessfully
