IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD TUESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE B.PRAKASH RAO and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R. KANTHA RAO WRIT APPEAL NO : 1027 of 2008 (Writ Appeal under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the Order dated 07/02/2007 in WP.No.8889 OF 2007 on the file of the High Court.) Between: 1 Alanelli Sriram Murthy Sarma S/o. A.Venkataramana Murthy R/o. 16-3-94, Gujarathipeta, Srikakulam 2 A.Nagabushana Rao S/o. Ranganayakulu R/o. Gopalpatnam, Visakhapatnam ..... APPELLANTS AND 1 The District Collector, Srikakulan, Srikakulam District. 2 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Etcherla Mandal, Srikakulam Dist. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Appellant:MR.D.V.SITARAMAMURTHY Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : O R D E R: (PER BPR J.,) Heard Sri D.V.Sitharam Murthy, learned counsel for the appellants and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue, appearing for the respondents and at their request, the appeal is taken up for disposal. The present appeal is ﬁled by the appellants/petitioners assailing the orders passed by a learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.No.8889 of 2007, dated 26.04.2007, wherein the direction sought for by the appellants against the respondents herein to incorporate their names in the revenue records and also to grant pattas in terms of the orders passed by the Settlement Oﬃcer dated 29.02.1984.was dismissed on the ground that the appellants/petitioners did not state as to why they did not take any steps for implementation of the scheme in the revenue records and approached this court in the year 2007 and as the petitioners claim the property under ryotwari pattas granted under Section 11 A of the Andhra Pradesh ( Andhra Area) Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1948 (for short ‘the Act’) the remedy lies to the recording authority/Tahsildar under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land & Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971, for grant of pattadar pass books and title deeds and accordingly, granted liberty to the appellants/petitioners. Hence, the present appeal. Admittedly, in the present case, the appellants did not approach the competent authority, namely, Tahsildar under Section 11-A of the Act and without which, they could not directly seek such a relief by way of writ petition. Hence, we do not ﬁnd any illegality in the orders passed by the learned Single Judge. The appeal is, therefore, dismissed with a liberty to the appellants to approach the Tahsildar. As and when the petitioners approach the Tahsildar, he shall pass appropriate orders on merits, within a period of four weeks from the date of this order, after giving notice and opportunity to both sides. No costs. __________________ B.PRAKASH RAO J., ________________ R.KANTHA RAO J., Dt.09.09.2008 tjs ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// SECTION OFFICER To 1 The District Collector, Srikakulan, Srikakulam District. 2 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Etcherla Mandal, Srikakulam Dist. 3. 2 CD copies