The petitioners (B. Nanda Kishore Reddy and Hari Prakash Reddy) filed a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India before the Andhra Pradesh High Court challenging orders passed by the Revenue Divisional Officer and the Joint Collector, Anantapuramu, which cancelled their pattedar passbooks and title deeds over agricultural land in Sy.No.521-2, Chigicherla Village, Dharmavaram Mandal. Respondents 5 and 6 had filed an appeal claiming the land originally belonged to their grandfather and that the petitioners had fraudulently obtained the passbooks and title deeds. The Revenue Divisional Officer and the Joint Collector both found that the petitioners had not produced documentary evidence of title and cancelled the passbooks, despite the petitioners arguing that the land was declared in their father's name in Land Ceiling proceedings, mortgaged to a bank in 1991, and that civil suits regarding title were already pending. The petitioners also contended that the appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer was not maintainable under Section 5(5) of the A.P. Rights in Land and Pattedar Passbooks Act, 1971, as no appeal lies against the issuance of pattedar passbooks. The judgment text as provided does not record a final operative order, as the matter appears to have been reserved and the full operative portion is not included in the extract.