THE HON'BLE Ms. JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No. 3365 OF 2003 Dated: 23.09.2010 Between: Gollapudi Kesava Rao ..... PETITIONER AND The District Collector, Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District and others .....RESPONDENTS The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE Ms. JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No. 3365 OF 2003 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a declaration that the inaction on the part of the respondents in considering the petitioner’s application issued for Ryotwari patta in respect of the land in survey No.275/1B, Adavivaram village under the provisions of Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inam (Abolition and Conversion of Ryotwari) Act, 1948 (for short, ‘the Act’), is arbitrary and illegal. In the counter affidavit filed on behalf of the respondents 1 to 3, it is stated that the land in survey No.275, which was vacant vested with the Government under Section 2 A of the Act free from all encumbrances vide proceedings of the Mandal Revenue Officer, Visakhapatnam (Rural), dated 18.04.1996. In view of the stand taken by the respondents in the counter affidavit, nothing survives for adjudication on merits. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is disposed of, leaving it open to the petitioner to initiate fresh proceedings challenging the action of the respondents, if so advised. No costs. ___________ G. ROHINI, J Date: 23.09.2010 Ivd