HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V. ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No. 263 of 2009 O R D E R: It is the case of the petitioner that he is the owner of the agricultural land admeasuring Ac.6.19 cents in Survey Nos. 14/1, 125/4, 129/2, 129/4, 129/6, 129/8, 131/6, 136/7 and 130/2 situated in Kottakovvada Village, Padmanabham Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. It is stated that it is the ancestral property of the petitioner and the Tahasildar, Padmanabham Mandal, the 3rd respondent herein, has also issued pattadar pass book, vide patta No. 317 and title deeds and eight years back, he planted mango plants therein. It is his further case that when there was an attempt to interfere with his possession and enjoyment over the land in question, he filed Writ Petition No. 1079 of 2006, where under this Court directed the police officials not to cut or destroy the mango tress in the land and the said writ petition is pending for adjudication. It is stated that again respondent Nos. 2 and 3 with the help of the 4th respondent, made an attempt to interfere with the peaceful possession and enjoyment of the petitioner, on 6th January 2009, and tried to cut the mango trees on the ground that the said land is a Government land. Hence, the petitioner has filed the present writ petition. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is of the opinion that if the land in question is a Government land, it is always open for the respondents to initiate appropriate action for eviction of the petitioner from the said land, but without following due process of law, the petitioner cannot be dispossessed therefrom. The writ petition is, therefore, disposed of directing the respondents not to interfere with the peaceful possession and enjoyment of the petitioner over the land in question, without following due process of law. No costs. ---------------------------- (V. ESWARAIAH, J) 12th January 2009 ksld