THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.5611 of 2010 01.04.2010 Between: Chintha Jagannadham and others. ….Petitioners AND Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep.by Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.5611 OF 2010 ORDER: The five petitioners are from Chinna Gollapalem Village, Mogaltur Mandal of West Godavari District. The first petitioner statedly purchased land admeasuring Acs.6.00 in R.S.No.372 on 01.10.1962 from Pokkirigadda Veerla Venkaiah, and petitioners 3 to 5 statedly purchased Acs.2.00 in R.S.No.372 under agreement of sale. There is some dispute between petitioners and seventh respondent. The latter appears to have filed O.S.No.128 of 1990 on the file of the Court of the Additional Junior Civil Judge, Narsapur for permanent injunction restraining petitioners herein from the land in R.S.No.372. The suit and also the appeal were dismissed. Thereafter, it is alleged that respondents 7 to 9 approached respondents 3 to 5. The petitioners allege that respondents 3 to 5 are making efforts to dispossess petitioners and repeatedly calling petitioners to their office. Therefore, they filed instant writ petition seeking appropriate writ for declaration and consequential direction. At the stage of admission itself, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue (Andhra Area) obtained instructions. He submits that seventh respondent filed an application before third respondent for survey and fixation of boundary stones in R.S.No.372. When survey officials proposed to fix survey, D-form pattaholders of Chinna Gollapalem Village objected and with the help of police, action is being taken for fixing boundary stones between two villages, namely, Chinna Gollapalem and Kalipatnam. The other allegations are denied. It appears seventh respondent filed W.P.No.1401 of 2010 seeking survey of the land. Presumably acting on the observations made by this Court in the said writ petition, he made an application, based on which survey was taken up. Therefore, petitioners cannot have any objection for the fourth respondent to take up survey. However, be it made clear even if fourth respondent is competent to conduct survey as per Andhra Pradesh Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923 or Board Standing Orders, the same does not enable or empower any revenue official to dispossess a person in possession of the land. Therefore, the petitioners are given liberty to approach fourth respondent with the copy of this order. Fourth respondent shall give notice to petitioners for conducting survey of the land in R.S.No.372. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. _______________ (V.V.S.RAO, J) 01.04.2010 Pln