IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE P.V.SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO : 570 of 2001 Between: 1 Smt. Dasari Appayyamma, W/o.Polipalli, R/o.Adari Village, Visakhapatnam (Rural) & Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. 2 Dasari Suryanarayana, W/o.Polipalli, R/o.Adari Village, Visakhapatnam (Rural) & Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. 3 Smt. Nalla Appayyamma, W/o.Apparao, R/o.Adari Village, Visakhapatnam (Rural) & Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. 4 Smt. Dasari Narsayamma, W/o.Polipalli, R/o.Adari Village, Visakhapatnam (Rural) & Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. 5 Bandi Apparao, S/o.Atchibabu, R/o.Adari Village, Visakhapatnam (Rural) & Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. 6 Smt. Lanka Seshamma, W/o.late Venkatarao, R/o.Adari Village, Visakhapatnam (Rural) & Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. 7 E.S.V. Bhagiratha Rao, S/o.Late E.L.Narasingarao, R/o.Adari Village, Visakhapatnam (Rural) & Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. 8 A.Kondababu, S/o.Suryanarayana, R/o.Adari Village, Visakhapatnam (Rural) & Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The District Collector, Visakhapatnam District. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Visakhapatnam Revenue Division, Visakhapatnam District. 3 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Visakhapatnam (Rural) Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. 4 Sri Simhachalam Devastanam, Rep. by its Executive Officer, Simhachalam. Visakhapatnam District. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a writ, order or direction more especially one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the patta granted in favour of the 4th respondent Devastanam u/s.7 and 3 of the A.P.Inams (Abolition & Conversion into Ryotwari Tenure) Act, 1956 as void, illegal, ultravires of the procedure and consequently set aside the same and hold that the same is not binding on the petitioners who are the owners in respoect of lands in S.No.83/3 and 83/4 Adavivaram Village, Visakhapatnam (Rural) Mandal, Visakhapatnam District, and consequently, entitled to the compensation for the acquisition of lands made by the 1st respondent. Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.P.SRI RAGHU RAM Counsel for the Respondents: 1.GP FOR REVENUE 4.SRI M.ADINARAYANA RAJU The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.V.SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.570 of 2001 ORDER: It is brought to the notice of this Court that the issues sought to be raised in the present writ petition are covered by the common judgment of a Division Bench of this Court in Writ Appeal Nos.1650 of 2000 and batch, dated 31.12.2001, and the common order of a learned Single Judge in W.P.No.9196 of 1997 and batch, dated 28.02.2007. By way of the said orders, this Court held that the orders sought to be challenged in the writ petitions are appealable under Section 7(2) of the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1956 (for short ‘the Act’). 2. Accordingly, the present writ petition is dismissed, reserving liberty to the petitioners to avail the alternative remedy of appeal, under Section 7(2) of the Act, available to them. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ P.V.SANJAY KUMAR,J 16.09.2008 v v