The petitioners’ father – Narayanappa was assigned an extent of Acs.5.23 cents of agricultural land in survey Nos.570 of Errampalli Village, Chennekothapalli Mandal, Anantapur District, by proceedings dated 05.01.1975. Consistent with the chronic maladministration in the lower echelons of revenue administration, the Tahsildar, Chennekothapalli, assigned the same land to the father of respondent Nos.5 to 8 by proceedings dated 13.12.1978 without cancelling the earlier assignment dated 05.01.1975 in favour of Narayanappa. Narayanappa approached the third respondent – the Revenue Divisional Officer(RDO), Dharmavaram, aggrieved by the 1978 assignment in favour of the father of respondent Nos.5 to 8. By the order dated 06.05.1986, the RDO found the assignment in 1978, during the pendency of the 1975 assignment, to be invalid and set aside the later assignment. Aggrieved thereby, the father of respondent Nos.5 to 8 preferred an appeal to the second respondent. The second respondent by the order dated 31.03.2007 allowed the appeal and invalidated the earlier assignment dated 05.01.1975 in favour of Narayanappa and upheld the assignment dated 31.12.1978 in favour of the father of respondent Nos.5 to 8. Aggrieved thereby the petitioners preferred a revision to the first respondent, who by impugned order dated 24.11.2007 rejected the revision.
