IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 20081 of 2008 Between: Allani Sudhakar Rao S/o. Late Kondal Rao R/o. Kodakanchi Village, Madharam Post, Patancheru-502319, Medak District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The District Collector, Medak District at Sangareddy Medak. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Medak. 3 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Jinnaram Mandal, Medak 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 will be pleased to issue writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the inaction of the ﬁrst respondent in not ﬁnalising the representation dt. 13.08.2008 of the petitioner as arbitrary, illegal, unjust and thereby direct the ﬁrst respondent to finalise the representation dt. 13.08.2008 of the petitioner. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.C.VIKRAM CHANDRA Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following ORDER: THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA Writ Petition No.20081 of 2008 Order: Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for the respondents and at their request, the writ petition is taken up for final disposal, at the admission stage. The petitioner claims to be the owner of the land to an extent of Acs.397.29 guntas situated in Survey No.242 (new Survey Nos.1 to 129) of Nalthur Village, Korlakunta Hamlet, Jinnaram Mandal, Medak District having succeeded to the same. The petitioner states that out of the said extent of land, an extent of Acs.153.08 guntas was allotted to some third parties and the remaining extent of land i.e., Acs.244.21 guntas, has been entered in the revenue records as Poramboke, Gairon, Shikam, Kharizkata etc., by the Tahsildar, Jinnarama, which according to the petitioner is illegal. Therefore, the petitioner made an application on 13.08.2008 to the District Collector, Medak District at Sangareddy, the ﬁrst respondent, seeking rectiﬁcation of the entries in the revenue records by deleting the entries which were wrongly entered as Poramboke, Gairon, Shikam, Kharizkata etc. Alleging inaction on the part of the first respondent, the present writ petition is filed. When the writ petition is taken up for consideration, it is submitted by the learned Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for the respondents that under the provisions of the A.P. Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 an application seeking rectiﬁcation of the entries in the revenue records has to be made to the Tahsildar, which has not been disputed by the learned counsel for the petitioner. In the circumstances, the writ petition is disposed of directing the petitioner to approach the third respondent, namely, the Tahsildar, Jinnaram Mandal, Medak District, who in turn shall consider the request of the petitioner and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. No costs. ___________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Date: 21.10.2008 VGB