IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:1060 of 2002 Between: 1 Kasireddi Rama Rao, S/o. Appa Rao, resident of Vasantha Village, Gantyada Mandal, Vizianagaram district. 2 Kasireddi Suri Naidu, s/o Appa Rao resident of Vasantha village, Gantyada Mandal, Vizianagaram District. 3 Kasireddi Venkatrao S/o Appa Rao, resident of Vasantha village, Gantyada Mandal, Vizianagaram District. 4 Kasireddi Bhaskara Rao S/o. Samudram, resident of Vasantha village, Gantyada Mandal, Vizianagaram district. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The District Collector, Vizianagaram. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Vizianagaram. 3 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Jami mandal Vizianagaram district. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.O.MANOHAR REDDY Counsel for the Respondents:AGP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of mandamus to set aside orders, dated 04.12.2000 and 29.12.2001 passed by respondent Nos.3 and 2 respectively. By order, dated 04.12.2000, respondent No.3 directed eviction of the petitioners under Section 7 of the Andhra Pradesh Land Encroachment Act, 1905 (for short ‘the Act’). The said order was conﬁrmed in appeal by order, dated 29.12.2001 passed by respondent No.2. At the hearing, Sri O.Manohar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners raised various contentions. In the view, which I am proposing to take, it is not necessary to refer to those contentions. It is speciﬁcally pleaded in the counter- aﬃdavit of the respondents that after dismissal of the Civil Suit ﬁled by the petitioners, and the appeal by respondent No.2, house-site pattas were granted in favour of third parties in respect of the same lands, which are in dispute. The third party beneficiaries, in whose favour the house-site pattas were granted, have not been impleaded in the writ petition. Unless the validity of those pattas are questioned, I am afraid, no relief can be granted to the petitioners to protect their possession as that would vitally aﬀect the interests of the subsequent assignees. In this view of the matter, the writ petition is disposed of without going into the merits of the contentions raised by the petitioners, with liberty to the petitioners to question the validity of the house site pattas granted in favour of the third parties before appropriate forum. The learned counsel for the petitioners stated that to enable the petitioners to avail such a remedy, respondent No.3 may be directed to furnish certiﬁed copies of the pattas granted to the third parties. Accordingly, respondent No.3 is directed to furnish the copies of pattas within a period of four (4) weeks from the date of respondent No.3 receiving applications from the petitioners. For a period of eight (8) weeks, status quo as on today shall be maintained with regard to possession. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 25th SEPTEMBER, 2008. kvni