IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 19 of 2002 Between: Pasham Mangamma, W/o. Pullaiah, R/o. Chellaihgudem, H/o. Kanagal Village and Mandal, Nalgonda District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Kanagal Mandal, Nalgonda District. 2 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Kanagal Mandal, Nalgonda District. ..RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:None appeared Counsel for the respondents: AGP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of Mandamus to direct the respondents not to alter or make any fresh entries in the revenue records with regard to Survey No.618/2 admeasuring Ac.1.07 cents of Chellaiahgudem, Hamlet of Kanagal Village and Mandal, Nalgonda District. The father of the petitioner was the pattadar and possessor of the above mentioned land. The petitioner claimed that after her father’s death, pattadar passbooks and title deeds were issued in her name with respect to the said property along with other property; that when one Yetavelly Somaiah, her close relative tried to dispossess her from the property, she ﬁled O.S.No.249 of 2001 on the ﬁle of the Court of Junior Civil Judge, Nalgonda, for permanent injunction and that the said suit is pending. In this writ petition, the grievance of the petitioner is that at the instance of the said Somaiah, the respondents are trying to make false entries in the revenue records without giving notice to her. In the counter-aﬃdavit ﬁled by respondent No.1, he admitted that the petitioner’s father was pattadar of the above mentioned land. He, however, stated that the petitioner’s father sold the said property to Yetavelly Somaiah, S/o Ramalingaiah under registered sale deed No.2001 of 1983 and that the sale was incorporated in the faisal patti of the year 1985-86. It is further averred that while preparing pahani for the subsequent year, instead of deleting the name of the petitioner’s father, the name of his co-sharer Sri Lingaiah, S/o China Tirumalaiah was deleted and the name of Somaiah was substituted. He further stated that as the name of the petitioner’s father remained in the records, the record was mutated in the name of the petitioner and pattadar passbook and title deeds were issued in her favour and that Somaiah ﬁled a petition seeking correction of entries in the revenue records. in order to rectify the above mentioned mistake. The answering respondent stated that in view of the above mentioned mistakes, the matter has been referred to the Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer, Nalgonda for clarification. The contents of the counter-aﬃdavit reveal that so far the record of rights has not been corrected. Under Section 5 of the Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 (for short “the Act”), the recording authority is empowered to hold an enquiry into the claim made by any person regarding acquisition of a right over the property and pass appropriate orders to carry out an amendment in the record of rights after notice to all the persons whose names are entered in the record of rights and who are interested in or aﬀected by the amendment. Therefore, interests of justice would be met if respondent No.1 is directed to hold a proper enquiry after giving notice to the petitioner; Sri Yetavelly Somaiah, S/o Ramalingaiah and any other person, who is interested in the land, in question, and take an appropriate decision on the claim of Yetavelly Somaiah to carry out corrections in the record of rights. Respondent No.1, after the enquiry, shall pass an order and communicate the same to the parties. An aggrieved party is entitled to avail the remedy of appeal under Section 5(5) of the Act against such order passed by respondent No.1. Ordered accordingly. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 24th September, 2008 vrn