IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 17703 of 2008 Between: 1 Vadlamanu Seetha Ramanuja Charyulu, S/o. Ramana Charyulu, Rentachinthala (V) Mettugudapadu (M), C/o. Venugopalaswamy Temple, Guntur District. 2 Sagi Samba Murthy, S/o. Hanumanthaiah, Mettugudapadu Village, Rentachinthala (M), Seetharama Swamy Temple, Guntur District. 3 Vellaturi Nageswara Sharma, S/o. Sharma, Mettugudapadu Village, Rentachinthala (M), Nageswara Swamy Temple, Guntur District. 4 Gottipalla Krishnamacharyulu, S/o. Ramanujacharyulu, Rentachinthala (P & M), Venugopalaswamy Devasthanam, Guntur District. 5 Vokula Bharanam Satyanarayana Charyulu, S/o. Venkata Charyulu, Gurazala (M), Guntur District. Palle Gunta, Venugopala Swamy & Anjaneya Swamy 6 Vokula Bharanam Venugopal Swamy, S/o. Venkata Charyulu, Janga Maheswarapuram (Vill), Gurazala Mandal, Guntur District Seetharama Swamy & Anjaneya Swamy Temples ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The District Collector, Guntur District. 2 The Superintendent of Police, Guntur District. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Narsaraopet, Guntur District. 4 The Mandal Revenue Officer/Tehsildar, Rentachinthala Mandal, Guntur District. 5 The Mandal Revenue Divisional Officer/Tehsildar, Gurazala Mandal, Guntur District. ...RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a writ or order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring that the action of the respondents in not taking any steps to evict the illegal encroachers on temple lands and the lands provided for Archaka services in spite of ﬁling number of representations and event after conﬁrmation of some of the respondents herein regarding encroachments on temple lands is illegal, arbitrary and violation of provisions of endowment law, principles of natural justice and consequently direct the respondents to take proper steps of evict the encroached person on temple lands and the lands provided for Archakas and particularly the lands provided to the petitioners and their temples. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.KOONA REDDY ANJI REDDY Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled by the petitioners stating that though they made several representations to the District Collector and the Superintendent of Police stating that the lands belonging to the temples mentioned in their representations were being encroached by unauthorized persons, as a result of which they are not able to get any revenue to maintain the temples, no action has been taken on their representations and, therefore, they seek necessary directions from this court to direct the respondents to evict the unauthorized persons and to hand over the land to the temple Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned Government Pleader for Revenue. Pursuant to the representations made by the petitioners, it seems that the Collector has called for a report from the Tahsildar and by proceedings dated 17.6.2008 in RC No.1172/2008, the Tahsildar has sent a report indicating the encroachments and for taking necessary action. However, it is stated that so far, no action has been taken to remove the encroachments. In the circumstances, the 1st respondent -District Collector, is directed to consider the representation of the petitioners in the light of the report submitted by the Tahsildar and take necessary action expeditiously. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. N.V.RAMANA,J DT.04.09.2008 msv ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1 The District Collector, Guntur District. 2 The Superintendent of Police, Guntur District. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Narsaraopet, Guntur District. 4 The Mandal Revenue Officer/Tehsildar, Rentachinthala Mandal, Guntur District. 5 The Mandal Revenue Divisional Officer/Tehsildar, Gurazala Mandal, Guntur District. 5 2CCs to GP for Revenue, High Court of A.P. Hyderabad. 6 2CD copies