HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.4337 of 2011 Date: 25.02.2011 Between : Arishepalli Savitri. …….Petitioner And The Additional Agent to Government, Khammam District/ Project Officer, ITDA, Bhadrachalam & others. ….Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.4337 of 2011 ORDER : Heard learned counsel for petitioner and also the learned Government Pleader for Social Welfare, appearing for respondents. This writ petition is filed, seeking directions by way of Mandamus, declaring the action of 1st respondent in not staying the order, dated 31.08.2010, passed by the 2nd respondent in LTR Case No.121/2010/DMPT, during the pendency of the appeal filed by her on 13.01.2011, as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner claims that she is the owner and possessor of land admeasuring 3 acres, covered by Sy.No.713/33 of Akinepalli village of Dammapet Mandal in Khammam District. It is the case of the petitioner that her father had purchased the aforesaid land on 08.03.1960, as such, there is no violation of the provisions of the A.P.Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulations. It is submitted that the 2nd respondent-Special Deputy Collector (Tribal Welfare), Bhadrachalam, Khammam District, by mis-construing the provisions of the said Regulations, has ordered for eviction of the petitioner, by an order, dated 31.08.2010, passed in LTR Case No.121/2010/DMPT. It is stated that as against the said order, the petitioner carried the matter by way of appeal before the Additional Agent to Government on 13.01.2011, and has also moved an application for grant of interim orders. It is the grievance of the petitioner that although she has filed the application for interim orders, no orders are passed by the appellate authority, and on the other hand, respondents are taking steps for her eviction. Whether the transfer of land claimed by the petitioner is in violation of the provisions of the A.P. Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulations or not, is a matter which is seized up before the appellate authority under the Land Transfer Regulation 1/1959, as amended by Regulation 1/1970. Under the scheme of the Regulations, against the orders of the Special Deputy Collector, there is a remedy of appeal before the Agent to Government. As it is stated that the land was purchased by the father of the petitioner as early as on 08.03.1960, and since then, it is in the possession of the late father of the petitioner, and thereafter, in her possession, and in view of pendency of appeal before the appellate authority, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the appellate authority to dispose of the appeal preferred by the petitioner on 13.01.2011, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. There shall be a further direction that the order of eviction passed by the 2nd respondent in LTR Case No.121/2010/DMPT, dated 31.08.2010, shall remain suspended till disposal of appeal by the 1st respondent. Subject to the above directions, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. ______________________ 25th February 2011 R.SUBHASH REDDY, J N.B: Issue C.C. in three days. (b/o) ajr