HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No. 3591 OF 2010. DATED 18TH FEBRUARY, 2010. BETWEEN Smt. T.Sita Ratnamma ….Petitioner and Government of AP, Revenue Department, Rep. By its Principal Secretary to Govt., Secretariat, Hyderabad, and, ors. ….Respondents. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No. 3591 OF 2010. ORDER: This Writ Petition is ﬁled seeking a Mandamus to declare the action of the ﬁrst respondent in not granting stay of operation of the order of the fourth respondent dated 25.9.2004, which was conﬁrmed by the third respondent by order dated 31.10.2005 and further by the second respondent by order dated 16.7.2009 as arbitrary and illegal and for a consequential direction to the respondents not to evict the petitioner from the land in an extent of Ac.3.25 cents in Sy.Nos. 540 and 542 of Kodurupadu village, Nellore Mandal and District. Heard both sides. It appears that the petitioner has purchased an extent of Ac. 3.25 cents of land in Sy.Nos. 540 and 542 of Kodurupadu village, Nellore Mandal and District, in the year 1992 under a registered sale deed. The Pattadar Passbooks and title deeds were issued in favour of the petitioner. According to the petitioner, the land in question was originally assigned in favour of an Ex- serviceman in the year 1948 and after more than 14 years, some where in the year 1962, the Ex-Serviceman sold the said land in favour of a third party. Thereafter ﬁve transactions had taken place and the petitioner is the last person who purchased the said land in the year 1992. According to the petitioner, the provisions of the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act 1977 have no application since the assignment was made in the year 1948. Apart from that, as six transactions had taken place against the said land, it has last the nature of ‘assigned land’. However, the Mandal Revenue Officer/4th respondent seems to have issued a notice in the year 2004 and after conducting a detailed enquiry, passed order of resumption in respect of the land in question in favour of the Government on 25.9.2004. Aggrieved thereby, the petitioner ﬁled an appeal before the Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer, Nellore/third respondent and thereafter a revision before the Joint Collector, Nellore/second respondent and further revision before the ﬁrst respondent/Government. The learned Counsel for the petitioner contended that along with the revision ﬁled before the before the Government, the petitioner also ﬁled stay application, but the Government neither granted stay nor disposed of the main revision. It is the grievance of the petitioner that in the meanwhile taking advantage of the same, the respondents are trying to dispossess him from the land in question. Under these circumstances, without expressing any opinion on the merits, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the ﬁrst respondent to consider and dispose of the revision purported to have been ﬁled by the petitioner within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Till such time, the impugned orders passed by Respondents 2 to 4 shall not be given effect to. Subject to the above direction, the Writ Petition is disposed of at the admission stage. No costs. ----------------------------------- JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU DATED 18T H FEBRUARY, 2010. MSNR.