IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 16346 of 2008 Between: Machunuru Srinivasulu Reddy and 3 others. ..... PETITIONER AND The Govt. of A.P., rep. by its Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and 23 others. .....RESPONDENT(S) THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 16346 of 2008 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a Mandamus to declare the action of the 2nd respondent-District Collector, Kadapa, in not passing orders on the revision petition or the stay application filed by the petitioners, vide Reference No.E3/3269/08, dated 14-07-2008, assailing the correctness of the orders of the 4th respondent- Revenue Divisional Officer, Rajampet, Kadapa Distrtict, as well as the 5th respondent-Tahsildar, Atloor village, Atloor Mandal, Kadapa District, in proceedings No.B/1290/2007, dated 30-05-2008, and No.B/8/2007, dated 14-06-2007, respectively, as arbitrary, illegal and consequently, direct the respondents not to dispossess the petitioners from their respective lands in Sy. Nos.732/3 (Ac.1.70 cents), 731 (Ac.1.68 cents) belonging to the 1st petitioner, in Sy. Nos.1029/5 (Ac.1.85 cents), 1029/2 (Ac.1.86 cents), and 1028/4 (Ac.1.63 cents) belonging to the 2nd petitioner, in Sy. Nos. 730/1 (Ac.1.60 cents), 736/2 (Ac.1.22 cents), 726/3 (Ac.1.12 cents), 1028/2 (Ac.0.50 cents), 733/1 (Ac.1.72 cents) and 733/3 (Ac.1.61 cents) belongings to the 3rd petitioner, and in Sy. Nos. 730/3 (Ac.1.36 cetns), 730/5 (Ac.1.38 cents), 730/6 (Ac.1.40 cetns), 1027/1 (Ac.1.52 cetns), and 1028/5 (Ac.2.70 cetns) belonging to the 4th petitioner, situated in Atloor village and Mandal, Kadapa District. 2. There is no necessity of going into all the details of the case. It appears the petitioners became owners of their respective lands, by virtue of proclamation of sale in the public auction, conducted by the respondents 6 and 7-District Cooperative Central Bank, Kadapa, pursuant to the awards obtained by them, under the provisions of A.P. Cooperative Societies Act, 1964. The petitioners also have been given pattedar passbooks and title deeds in respect of their lands. While so, the 5th respondent issued notices and finally cancelled the sale deeds executed in favour of the petitioners, on the ground that the sales are void and the subject matter of the instant lis comes within the fold of the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohobition of Transfer) Act, 9 of 1977. Aggrieved by the said order, the petitioners have preferred a regular appeal before the 4th respondent. The 4th respondent, however, confirmed the order passed by the 5th respondent. Assailing both the orders, the petitioners have preferred a revision along with stay application before the 3rd respondent- Joint Collector, Kadapa, and the same is kept pending. The grievance of the petitioners is that neither the revision is disposed of nor any orders are passed on stay application. 3. While admitting the writ petition on 29-07-2008, this Court directed the respondents not to dispossess the petitioners from their lands during pendency of the writ petition. 4. The learned counsel for the petitioners contends that the issue that arises for consideration in this writ petition is squarely covered by the judgment passed by this Court in W.A.No.950 of 2007, dated 30-12-2008, wherein, a Division Bench of this Court held that the assigned lands once permitted to be mortgaged, they can be put to sale under public auction as required under the Law. Therefore, when the petitioners have purchased the lands in the public auction, conducted by the authorities concerned under the provisions of the A.P. Cooperative Societies Act, 1964, they are entitled to hold the said lands and the respondents have no authority to cancel the sale deeds or treat them as invalid under the law. 5. Under those circumstances, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition directing the 3rd respondent-Joint Collector, Kadapa, to dispose of the revision petition pending before him, following the judgment of a Division Bench of this Court in W.A.No.950 of 2007, dated 30-12-2008, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. It is made clear that till the disposal of the revision petition, the interim stay granted by this Court on 29-07-2008 shall continue. 6. With the aforesaid direction, the writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. ___________________ 20th October 2009 kvr