HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.2643 OF 2007 DATE:19-08-2010 BETWEEN Gunde Papaiah …Petitioner AND Mandal Revenue Officer, Marredpally Mandal, Secunderabad, and Another …Respondents THIS COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No.2643 OF 2007 ORDER: This petition is filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. to quash the proceedings in Crime No.107 of 2007 and charge sheet, dated 22.3.2007 filed therein on the file of Station House Officer, Malkajgiri Police Station, Cyberabad, R.R.District. The only ground raised by the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the Mandal Revenue Officer, Marredpally Mandal, who lodged the complaint with the Station House Officer, Malkajgiri cannot lodge such complaint since the land in dispute is situated in Malkajgiri Mandal, R.R.District which falls within the jurisdiction of Mandal Revenue Officer, Malkajgiri Mandal and therefore, the learned counsel contends that the Mandal Revenue Officer, Marredpally Mandal has no locus standi to lodge the complaint. When any person encroaches into the Government land, any official of the said Mandal or neighbouring Mandal can file a complaint. The complaint allegations disclose that the petitioner herein is trying to grab the Government land in Sy.No.844/1 of Malkajgiri Village of Marredpally Mandal. He had thrice constructed a room illegally and the same has been removed thrice, and that in spite of the same, he erected a name board stating that the land belongs to him and the same has also been removed thrice, but again he erected the board. Therefore, the Mandal Revenue Officer, Marredpally Mandal lodged the complaint before the Station House Officer, Malkajgiri Police Station to take action in the matter. On the basis of the said complaint, a case in Crime No.107 of 2007 has been registered. The police after investigation, laid the charge sheet before X Metropolitan Magistrate, Cyberabad at Malkajgiri stating that the investigation established that the land in Sy.No.844/1 to an extent of Ac.304 is a Government land and is classified as Sankari Poramboke, and that the said land is covered by rocks and boulders and it is unfit for cultivation. In the said land, Ac.13.25 gts. of land is in the possession of Mandal Revenue Officer, Marredpally and that the other part of the land in the said survey number was given for several public purposes. Since the investigation reveals that the Government land in Sy.No.844/1 is in possession of Mandal Revenue Officer, Marredpally Mandal, which is being sought to be grabbed by the petitioner, the Mandal Revenue Officer, Marredpally Mandal can always at liberty to lodge a complaint with the police having jurisdiction over the area. In view of the same, no ground is made out to quash the impugned proceedings. The Criminal Petition is accordingly dismissed. _______________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J. AUGUST 19, 2010 Tsr.