One E.Manohar Rao, who is the owner of various extents of agricultural lands, filed a declaration in C.C.No.P/3322, 3323, 3324/75 in respect of the lands including the land in Survey No.1116 under Section 8 of the A.P. Land Reforms (Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings) Act, 1974 (for short ‘the Land Ceiling Act’). The Land Reforms Tribunal passed an order on 14.05.1987 declaring that the declarant is a surplus land holder and in the surrender proceedings the said Manohar Rao surrendered the land covered by Survey No.1116 admeasuring Acs.11.10 guntas, which is in possession of the petitioner, who was declared as a protected tenant under the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Area) Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1950. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner filed an appeal before the Land Reforms Appellate Tribunal in L.R.A.No.23 of 1987 and the Appellate Tribunal while recording the submission made by the learned Government Pleader that if the appellant-petitioner herein is the protected tenant and his tenancy is proved, instead of the declarantE.Manohar Rao, the Government would step into shoes of the declarant and the protected tenancy of the appellant will not be disturbed, held that if the appellant is a protected tenant in respect of the surrendered land, he continues and remains to be a protected tenant and he suffers no loss, and accordingly dismissed the appeal by order dated 18.12.1989. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner filed
