THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.10896 of 2007 04.6.2007 Between: B.Mallaiah, S/o.B.Sathaiah @ Chinna Sathaiah And others … Petitioners AND The District Collector, Ranga Reddy District And others … Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.10896 of 2007 ORDER: The petitioners are sons of one late B.Sathaiah @ Chinna Sathaiah of Himayathnagar village of Moinabad Mandal in Ranga Reddy District. Late Sathaiah was pattadar of agricultural lands in survey Nos.89/A (Acs.0.15 gts) and 102/AA (Acs.4.00) of the village. He also obtained Pattadar Pass Book (PPB) bearing No.267955 and Title Deed (TD) No.227. After demise of their father, petitioners could not trace PPB and TD. Therefore, they made an application under Rule 31(2) of A.P. Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Rules, 1989 (the Rules, for brevity) requesting for issue of duplicate PPB and TD, as they filed O.S.No.239 of 2006 on the file of the Court of District Judge, Ranga Reddy, for declaration and recovery of possession against M/s.Krishna and J.P.Reddy. Though the petitioners approached the Mandal Revenue Officer (MRO) – third respondent herein; a couple of months ago, he did not receive the application for duplicate PPB and TD. Therefore, they filed the instant writ petition. Heard the learned Counsel for petitioners and learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue (General-T). The latter submits that the MRO has no objection to issue duplicate PPB and TD in respect of land comprised in survey Nos.89/A and 102/AA (PPB No.267955 and TD No.227). Therefore, this Court observes that these may be furnished to the petitioners on payment of prescribed fee within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. The writ petition, with the above observation, is accordingly disposed of. No costs. _____________ (V.V.S.RAO, J) June 04, 2007. YS