THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.31766 of 2010 Date: 16.12.2010 Between: A. Bheemaiah Naidu ..... Petitioner AND The Tahsildar, Prakasam District and others .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri T. Ramakoteswara Rao Counsel for Respondents: Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue The Court made the following: ORDER: The petitioner claims that his father was owner of lands admeasuring Acs.13.64 cents in survey Nos.278/14, 288/6, 294/4, 309/1, 319/2, 342/1 and 342/3, Acs.13.39 cents in survey No.191/2 and Acs.11.66 cents in survey No.241/1 of Mallayapalem Village. He has pleaded that his parents have died during his childhood and that his recent enquiries have revealed that taking advantage of the death of his parents, some third parties have got their names mutated in the record of rights. He has pleaded that though he has approached respondent No.1 with a request to hold an enquiry and mutate his name in the record of rights by way of a representation made on 14.11.2010, respondent No.1 has not taken any action sofar. The petitioner has caused a legal notice issued to which respondent No.1 has not responded. He has, therefore, filed the present writ petition for a Mandamus to direct respondent No.1 to act in accordance with the provisions of Section 5(1) read with Section 5(3) of the Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 1971 (for short ‘the Act’). As respondent No.1 is vested with the power to correct the entries made in the record of rights by following the procedure under Section 5(1) read with Section 5(3) of the Act and in the light of the plea of the petitioner that respondent No.1 has not been discharging his statutory obligation despite the repeated requests being made by the petitioner, respondent No.1 is directed to consider the petitioner’s representation and make an appropriate enquiry under Section 5(3) of the Act and pass an order on the petitioner’s representation for mutation of his name in the record of rights within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Subject to the above direction, the Writ Petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.40385 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 16th December, 2010 GHN