IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 17270 of 2008 Between: Jammula venkata Rao S/o Apparao R/o Door No. 5-91-45, 7/2, Chandramoulingar, Guntur Guntur District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The District Collector & Magistrate, Guntur District, Guntur. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer & Sub Divisional Magistrate, Guntur 3 The Tahsildar, Guntur Mandal, Guntur, Guntur district. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a Writ of Mandamus or any other Writ, order or direction, in the nature of Writ, declarign the action of the ﬁrst respondnet in not disposing of the stay application and Revision in Rc No. E2/Appeal No.1/2007 ﬁld by Smt. Jammula Annapurnamma W/o Venkatarao Writ Petitioenr as arbitrary and illegal and consequently to direct the ﬁrst respondent to dispose of the same within time to be ﬁxed by this Honoruable Court and in the meanwhile to stay the operationof the order of the third respondent passed in Rc No. 2347/06.B dated 17-2-2007 as was conﬁrmed by the Second respondent in POT. Appeal No. rc. 170/07-A dated 1-6-2007 and to pass such otherorders. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.G.PEDDA BABU Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.17270 OF 2008 ORAL ORDER: As against the orders dated 01.06.2007 of the second respondent- Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer, Guntur, conﬁrming the orders dated 17.02.2007 passed by the third respondent- Tahsildar, Guntur Mandal Guntur District, resuming the land in question to the Government, the petitioner states that his wife ﬁled revision, along with stay application, before the ﬁrst respondent-District Collector, Guntur, and later she died but till date no orders thereon had been passed. Hence he ﬁled the present writ petition being the legal representative and successor of his deceased wife. Heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue, and both of them agreed for disposal of the writ petition at the stage of admission with the following directions: The ﬁrst respondent-District Collector is directed to consider and dispose of either the main revision or the stay application preferred, by the petitioner, and pass appropriate orders thereon in accordance with law expeditiously. Till such time, status quo obtaining as on today shall be maintained by the parties. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is disposed of. No costs. ______________ N.V.RAMANA, J. Date: 08.08.2008 VGSR