IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 8337 of 2000 Between: T.A.Gopal ..... PETITIONER AND The Mandal Revenue Officer and another .....RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner:SMT V.HIMABINDU FOR SRI P.VEERA REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: G.P FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is filed for a writ of Mandamus to declare the inaction of the respondents in granting patta to the petitioner under the provisions of the Board Standing Orders in respect of land admeasuring Acs.2.40 guntas in Survey No.320/1 of Kotta Mari Kuppam Village, Satyavedu Mandal, Chittoor District as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner claims that he has been in possession and enjoyment of the above mentioned land for 25 years and raised a mango garden about a decade back. He admitted that the said land is an assessed waste land of respondent No.1 and he has been paying land revenue in respect of the said property. The grievance of the petitioner is that in spite of his representation made on 05-12-1996 for issue of patta in his favour, respondent No.1 had not taken any action. He also pleaded that subsequent to the making of the said representation, he personally approached respondent No.2 several times, which did not yield any result. No counter-affidavit is filed by the respondents. On the petitioner’s own showing, he is in unauthorized occupation of the Government land. The petitioner has not pointed out any legal provision under which the respondents are under an obligation to consider his claim for grant of patta of Government land. In my considered view, the petitioner has no enforceable legal right for issuance of a writ to direct the respondents to consider his request for granting patta when admittedly he encroached into Government land and in unauthorized occupation of the same. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 11th July, 2008 vrn