IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 25639 of 1997 Dated: 25.01.2007 Between: 1.Bathula Venkata Pathi,S/o Venkata Subbaiah, 60 years, agriculturist, R/o Ananthanarayana Puram (v), Buchi Reddipalem (M),Nellore District. 2.Gampa Penchaiah, S/o Polayya (adopted son of late Rosaiah), 53 years, agriculturist, R/o Nagayagunta (v), Buchireddipalem (M) Nellore District. 3.Manda Ramanaiah,S/o Ragaiah, 50 years, R/o Nagayagunta (v), Buchireddipalem (M), Nellore District. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1.The District Collector, Nellore. 2.The Mandal Revenue Officer, Buchireddipalem, Nellore District. 3.The Divisional Forest Officer (District Territorial) Forest Department, Opposite:Nippo Factory, Venuvihar, Nellore District. 4.Forest Ranger, Forest Department, Athamakur, Nellore District. … RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO.25639 of 1997 ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled seeking a Writ of Mandamus declaring the inaction of the respondents in assigning the lands under occupation of the petitioners in Sy.No.522 of Iskapalem village for over two decades, as illegal and arbitrary and consequently direct the respondents to consider the case of the petitioners and grant pattas in their favour in respect of the lands in question. The case of the petitioners is that they are landless poor and they belong to Vaddera community. In the years 1973 and 1980 they were granted temporary lease of diﬀerent pieces of land in Sy.No.522 of Iskapalem village for cultivation and since then they have been cultivating the lands, which were allotted to their share. The Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer, Buchireddipalem also inspected the said land on 24.08.1991 along with the Mandal District Surveyor and Village Assistant and submitted his report on 27.08.1991 that an extent of Ac.190.11 in Sy.No.522 had to be deserved and allotted to the beneﬁciaries including the petitioners. Despite the fact that the petitioners made several representations to the respondents for assignment of the land in question under landless poor category and grant pattas of the land under their cultivation, no action had been taken on the representations so far, instead they are trying to take steps to evict the petitioners from the land in question without following due process of law. The respondents though served did not choose to file any counter-affidavit. Having heard the learned Counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned Government Pleader for Revenue, I deem it appropriate to direct the respondents not to dispossess the petitioners from their lands in question without following due process of law, provided they are in possession of the lands in question. The respondents are further directed to consider the case of the petitioners as to whether they are entitled for pattas in their favour in respect of the lands in question. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. ____________________________ (GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J) 25-01-2007 Gsn.