The Petitioner, Debashish Devnarayan Ghosh, challenged orders passed by the Revenue Minister and Additional Commissioner, Konkan Division, which condoned a 34-year delay in filing an RTS Appeal and subsequently set aside a 1989 order of the Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO), Thane. The SDO's 1989 order had held, after due inquiry, that Babu Nana Jadhav (the original tenant whose tenancy rights the Petitioner claims through adoption) belonged to the 'Sonkoli' caste and not to any Scheduled Tribe, thereby finding no unlawful transfer of tribal land to a non-tribal. The Petitioner argued that the inordinate 34-year delay was unexplained and ought not to have been condoned, relying on Supreme Court precedents, and that the SDO's order was validly passed within its statutory jurisdiction under the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 and the Maharashtra Restoration of Lands to Scheduled Tribes Act, 1974. The Petitioner further contended that the Additional Commissioner erred in declaring the SDO's order void merely because it was passed after Babu Nana Jadhav's death, as the SDO's inquisitorial powers under Section 36A of the MLRC are not so restricted. The judgment records the submissions of both sides but does not appear to contain a final operative order within the provided text.