THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.7661 of 2009 ORDER: The petitioners were assigned about Acs.0.50 cents of land each in Survey Nos.479, 480, 507/1, 508/1, 514/2A and 514/2B of Agadala Lanka Village, Bhimadole Mandal, West Godavari District in the year 1980. The Tahsildar, Bhimadole Mandal, West Godavari District, the third respondent herein, initiated proceedings under Section 3 of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (for short ‘the Act’) against the petitioners alleging that they have transferred the assigned land. He passed an order, dated 31.01.2009, directing resumption of the land assigned to the petitioners. Aggrieved thereby, the petitioners preferred an appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Eluru, West Godavari District, the second respondent herein. They have also filed an application for stay. The grievance of the petitioners is that the third respondent is threatening to dispossess them even while the application for stay is pending consideration before the second respondent. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue. The petitioners have already availed the remedy of appeal under Section 4-A of the Act, feeling aggrieved by the order, dated 31.01.2009, passed by the third respondent. For one reason or the other, the second respondent did not take up the application for stay. In case, the petitioners are dispossessed from the land even while the appeal is pending, the very purpose of availing the remedy would be defeated. Hence, the writ petition is disposed of, directing that the order, dated 31.01.2009, passed by the third respondent shall remain suspended during the pendency of the appeal preferred by the petitioners before the second respondent. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt:17.04.2009 kdl