HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.23411 of 2010 Date 21.09.2010 Between: Nandipineni Anjamma and anothers. ..... PETITIONER AND The Govt. of A.P. rep. By its Principal Secretary to Government, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner : Sri M.Subrahmanyam Counsel for Respondent Nos.1 to 4: Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.23411 of 2010 ORDER: The petitioners, who purchased small extents of housing plots under registered sale deeds for valuable considerations, filed the present Writ Petition feeling aggrieved by the separate but similar show cause notices issued to them by respondent No.4 proposing resumption of their lands under the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (for short ‘the Act’). At the hearing, Sri M.Subrahmanyam, learned Counsel for the petitioners, fairly conceded that his clients have already submitted their explanations and that but for the imminent threat of their dispossession, the petitioners could have waited till final orders are passed on the show cause notices. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue (Assignments) submitted that till final orders are passed, the respondents cannot disturb the petitioners’ possession. In as much as no orders on the show cause notices are stated to have been passed, it is not permissible for the respondents to dispossess the petitioners or interfere with the possession of the plots in their occupation. Before any order adverse to their interest is passed, respondent No.4 shall hold an appropriate enquiry in which the petitioners are entitled to put- forth all the legally sustainable contentions, including the one that as the assignments do not contain the condition of non-alienation, the lands cannot be resumed under the provisions of the Act. Subject to the above observations, the Writ Petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the main petition, WPMP.No.29946 of 2010 filed by the petitioners for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:21.09.2010 usd