IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.7922 of 2010 BETWEEN Anumolu Venkata Mutta Rao. ... PETITIONER AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Principal Secretary, Revenue Department and three others. ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners: Mr. E.V.V.S. RAVI KUMAR Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following order: ORDER: This writ petition is filed challenging the sale proclamation dated 25.03.2010 issued by the Tahsildar, Tiruvuru Mandal, Krishna District, proposing to auction the Mango crop in the petitioner’s land admeasuring Ac.6.40 cents in R.S.Nos.277/18, 277/17 and 277/19 of Mallela Village, Tiruvuru Mandal, Krishna District. 2. By interim order dated 09.04.2010 this Court granted stay of the proposed auction subject to the condition that the petitioner deposits a sum of Rs.75,000/- with the Registrar (Judicial) of this Court within one week. The learned counsel for the petitioner filed memo dated 13.04.2010 in proof of the amount of Rs.75,000/- having been deposited, as directed. 3. Sri E.V.V.S. Ravi Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner, stated that pursuant to the interim order of this Court, his client had sold the Mango crop grown in his land. The learned counsel further stated that the revision filed by the petitioner before the Joint Collector, Krishna District under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 is still pending and during the pendency of the revision, the Tahsildar, Tiruvuru Mandal, Krishna District had initiated the impugned sale proceedings. 4. In the light of the pendency of the petitioner’s revision before the Joint Collector, Krishna District, the amount deposited before the Registrar (Judicial) of this Court pursuant to the interim order dated 09.04.2010, is directed to be transferred to the credit of the petitioner’s revision before the Joint Collector, Krishna District. The Joint Collector shall invest the amount so transferred in a fixed deposit with a nationalised bank pending disposal of the revision. The Joint Collector shall expeditiously dispose of the revision, after giving due opportunity of hearing to the parties, in accordance with law. The amount deposited by the petitioner and transferred to the credit of the revision of the petitioner on the file of the Joint Collector, Krishna District, shall abide by the result thereof. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of at the admission stage. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ SANJAY KUMAR, J June 29, 2010 DSK