THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.3668 of 2007 26.3.2007 Between: Sarika Guruvulu, S/o.Sanyasi … Petitioner AND The Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad And others … Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.3668 of 2007 ORDER: One Sarika Guruvulu filed the writ petition seeking a direction to the District Collector, Visakhapatnam, to grant permission to the petitioner to alienate the land admeasuring Acs.2.05 gts in survey No.99/4 sitauted at Nerellavalasa village of Bheemunipatnam Mandal in Visakhapatnam District, duly relaxing Section 3 of A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (the Act, for brevity). The land in question is admittedly an assigned land. The writ petition was filed on 23.2.2002. When the matter was listed on 26.2.2007 for preliminary hearing, Mr.Syed Ateequddin Bukhari, junior counsel to Sri Milind G Gokhale, requested for adjournment. The same was adjourned to 12.3.2007. Sri Satish Kumar Varma, another junior counsel, informed the Court that Sarika Guruvulu died and he needs time for taking steps to implead the legal heirs of petitioner. The matter was adjourned on that day and again on 20.3.2007. In spite of the same application to implead the legal heirs of the deceased petitioner is not filed and the learned Counsel says that his office has already informed them. Therefore, this Court is not inclined to grant further time. Liberty is given to the legal heirs of petitioner to agitate the matter before appropriate forum. The writ petition, with the above observation, is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ______________ March 26, 2007. (V.V.S.RAO, J) YS