HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALAKRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.12302 of 1996 Date: 02-08-2007. Between : Duvvur Srinivasulu Reddy & another. …..Petitioners And The Joint Collector, Nellore & others. …..Respondents. HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALAKRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION No.12302 of 1996 ORDER : According to the petitioners, they purchased small extent of land in Survey No.47 of Kuchivadapalem village by virtue of registered sale deeds on different dates during the years 1978 and 1991 and thereafter, as the abutting land is the land belonging to the Government, they encroached an extent of 0.18 cents and thus, they are in physical possession of the entire land for the last several years. As the said 0.18 cents is the Government land, the petitioners gave an application requesting the Government i.e. the respondents herein, to regularize the same by accepting the market value. However, no orders were passed on their application and hence, they approached this Court and filed the present writ petition. This Court, by way of interim order, directed all the parties to maintain status quo on 28.06.1996. As admittedly it is a land belonging to the Government and the same is encroached by the petitioners and the application filed seeking regularization is pending before the 2nd respondent, the 2nd respondent is hereby directed to consider the same and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. Accordingly, this writ petition is disposed of. The said exercise shall be completed within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and during the pendency of the same, the parties are hereby directed to maintain status quo. ____________________________ GOPALAKRISHNA TAMADA, J 2nd August 2007 ajr