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8. Both the cases - L.G.C.No. 23 of 1993 and L.G.C.No. 68 of 1994 -were heard together by the Special Court. On behalf of the first respondent herein, Dr. Ramakrishna Rao, the owner of the land, five witnesses were examined and as many as 23 documents were marked in L.G.C.No. 23 of 1993.Ch. Venkateswara Rao, the Power of Attorney of B. Ramakrishna Rao, gave evidence as P.W.1. One B. Satyanarayana Sarma, who purchased Plot Nos. 77 and 78 (adjacent plots of Ramakrishna Rao's plot) from Dr. Perraju, the original vendor, was examined as P.W.2. The document writer, R.S. Rama Murthy, figured as P.W.3. The brother-in-law of the petitioner, one of the attestors of the compromise Ex.A-22, gave evidence as P.W.4. Sri K. Adi Babu, Advocate, Visakhapatnam, who claimed to have effected the compromise at the instance of the petitioner went into the witness box as P.W.5. The writ petitioner examined himself as R.W.1 and three other witnesses also he produced in support of his assertion that he was the owner of the land in question. One P. Toyajakshudu, who claimed that the petitioner's father and mother worked in his house as domestic servants, gave evidence as R.W.2 stating that the petitioner has been living on the land in question. K. Bapiraju, a resident of Visakhapatnam, testified as R.W.3 that the petitioner was living in the petition schedule property even during the year 1984. G. Varahalu, a document writer, figured as R.W.4 claiming himself to be the scribe of Ex.B-33, agreement of sale, between Nookaiah, the alleged original owner and the petitioner. 36 documents were got marked on his behalf. One document, Ex.C-1, the original vakalat of Adi Babu, Advocate, was marked through Court. In the transferred case -L.G.C.No. 68 of 1994 - the petitioner gave evidence as P.W.1 and eleven documents were marked on his behalf. On behalf of the opposite side, no witness was examined and no document was marked.