THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No : 28352 of 2010 O R D E R: Heard the learned counsel for the writ petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Social Welfare. The Special Deputy Collector, Bhadrachalam passed orders in his proceedings in Case No.35/2010/PVC against the writ petitioner herein on 30.06.2010 ordering his ejectment from out of the land of an extent of Ac.4.04 guntas in Survey No. 98 of Somulagudem Village of Paloncha Mandal, Khammam District. It is not in dispute that against this order of the Special Deputy Collector, an appeal is provided to the Additional Agent to the Government, Bhadrachalam, Khammam District under Section 8 of the Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulation Act, 1959. The writ petitioner has asserted that such an appeal had been preferred on 29.10.2010 and along with the appeal, an interlocutory application was also moved seeking stay of the operation of the orders of the Special Deputy Collector dated 30.06.2010, but the 1st respondent did not choose to pass orders either in the stay petition or in the main appeal. Therefore, the present Writ Petition has been instituted. Once an appeal is preferred to the 1st respondent, it is only expected that it will be attended to at the earliest convenient time. If the appeal itself cannot be decided, the interlocutory application moved by the parties seeking urgent interim orders could be attended to in the meantime. In these set of circumstances, I consider it appropriate to direct the 1st respondent to entertain, hear and decide the appeal preferred against the orders of the Special Deputy Collector, Bhadrachalam dated 30.06.2010 within six months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Till such time, the status quo existing as of now with regard to possession be maintained. It is, however, open to the 1st respondent to independently consider the interlocutory application moved by the writ petitioner herein and decide the same even before it decides the appeal preferred to it. With this, the writ petition stands disposed of, but however, without costs. ------------------------------------- NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J 16th November 2010 Note: Issue CC in three days. (bo) ksld ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{MSN}