IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION NO : 1978 of 2005 Between: Smt. T. Lakshmamma, W/o. Late Gnr. T. Sayloo, R/o. 3-85, Macha Bolarum, Secunderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Government of A.P. Rep by its Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 The District Collector, Ranga Reddy District at Hyderabad. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, East Division, Ranga Reddy District. Goshamahal, Hyderabad. 4 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Shameerpet Mandal, Ranga Reddy 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 any appropriate Writ, Order or direction preferably a writ in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the action of the respondents in not assigning and issuing patta certificate in favour of the petitioner to the land situated in Sy.No. 997 and 998 in respect of 10 acres of land at (Chennapur Village) Jawaharnagar Village, Shammerpet Mandal/Medchal Taluk, Ranga Reddy District for last more than 30 years as arbitrary, illegal, unreasonable, violative of Art. 14, 21 and 300-A of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents to assign the land and issue patta certificate forthwith in favour of the petitioner to an extent of Ac. 10.00 gts situate in Sy. No. 997 and 998 of Jawaharnagar (Chennapur) village, Shameerpet Mandal/Medchal Taluk, Ranga Reddy District and consequently not to interfere with the peaceful possession of the petitioner over the said land pass scuh other order or orders as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.P.VENUGOPAL Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following: ORDER: The petitioner claims to be the widow of one Gen. T. Sayloo, who served in the Indian Army. She states that an extent of 5977.03 guntas of land was ear marked by the Government to the Ex-servicemen and that the Government also passed orders vide G.O.Ms.No.25, dated 23.10.1952 assigning the land to Labour Department to rehabilitate Ex-servicemen personnel. Subsequently, a Cooperative Society was registered as Jawaharnagar Cooperative Land Colonization Society and that the deceased husband of the petitioner was also allotted a plot. She claims that her husband died on 29.04.1993 and thereafter the petitioner and other family members have been carrying on agricultural operations in the said land. Now, the only grievance of the petitioner is that in spite of her repeated requests, the respondents failed to assign the land in question in favour of the petitioner and the patta certificate has not been issued so far. It is brought to my notice that an identical issue relating to the allotment of agricultural lands in Jawaharnagar Cooperative Land Colonization Society, Rangareddy District was considered by this Court in a batch of writ petitions in W.P.No.3912 of 1992 etc., and by a common order dated 25.03.2004 the said writ petitions were disposed of with certain directions to the respondents. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the present writ petition may also be disposed of in terms of the order in the said batch of cases. Having heard the learned counsel for both parties, without expressing any opinion as to the entitlement of the petitioner for grant of assignment as claimed, the writ petition is disposed of granting liberty to the petitioner to make an appropriate application before the respondents within a period of four weeks from the date of this order, in which event, the same shall be considered by the respondents appropriate orders be passed in accordance with law, within a period eight weeks from the date of receipt of application from the petitioner. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of at the admission stage. No costs. _____________ (G. ROHINI, J) Date: 08.02.2005 Ksn ASSISTANT REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1 The Principal Secretary, Government of A.P. Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 The District Collector, Ranga Reddy District at Hyderabad. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, East Division, Ranga Reddy District. Goshamahal, Hyderabad. 4 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Shameerpet Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. 5. Two C. Cs to G.P. for Revenue, High Court Buildings, Hyderabad (OUT). 6 Two C.D. copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{RLD}