IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 21432 of 2008 Between: 1 Mandala Radhika, W/o. M. M. Ramana Rao, D.No. 45-2-40/2-1, Ramachandra Nagar, Akkayyapalem, Visakhapatnam - 16. 2 Guttual Venkata Narayana, S/o. Late Mavullayya, D.No. 45-2-40/6-4, Ramachandra Nagar, Akkayyapalem, Visakhapatnam - 16. 3 Kandregula Venkata Ramana, D.No. 45-2-40/5, Ramachandra Nagar, Akkayyapalem, Visakhapatnam - 16. 4 Vanapalli Venkata Satyanarayana, S/o. Late Appa Rao, D.No. 45-2-40/3/1, Ramachandra Nagar, Akkayyapalem, Visakhapatnam - 16. 5 Devarakonda Venkata Lakshmi, W/o. Eswara Prasad, D.No. 45-2-40/62/B, Ramachandra Nagar, Akkayyapalem, Visakhapatnam - 16. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep by its Prl. Secretary to Government, Revenue Department, Secretarait, Hyderabad. 2 The Special Officer-cum-Competent Authority, Urban Land Ceiling, Visakhapatnam. .....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 an appropriate writ or order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring as illegal, arbitrary and contrary to G.O.Ms.No.747 Revenue dated 18-06-2008 the Notice issued in Ref No.130/08 dated 07-2008 by the 2nd Respondent and issue a consequential direction to the Respondent not to insist for payment of money for regularization. Counsel for the Petitioners: MR P.RAJASEKHAR Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE Order: This Writ petition is ﬁled challenging the impugned notice issued by the 2nd respondent – Special Oﬃcer, Urban Land Ceiling, Visakhapatnam directing the petitioners to ﬁle application under G.O.Ms.No.747 dated 18.6.2008 for regularization of the unauthorized constructions made by them in the surplus urban land. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned Government Pleader for Revenue and at their request the writ petition is taken up for ﬁnal disposal at the admission stage itself. It is the case of the petitioners that the land in their possession is not surplus land and, therefore, there is no need for them to ﬁle application seeking regularization of their possession under G.O.Ms.No.747 dated 18.6.2008. Learned Government Pleader for Revenue on instructions submits that the impugned notice is issued only to create awareness in persons who are in possession of the surplus lands and there is no compulsion for the petitioners to avail the beneﬁt of the said Government Order. However, on instructions she submits that the respondents are withdrawing the impugned notice issued to the petitioners. In view of the above, no further orders are necessary to be passed in this writ petition. It is accordingly closed. However, it is made clear that this order does not preclude the respondents from initiating action against those persons who are found to be in possession of surplus land in accordance with law. N.V.RAMANA,J Dt.29.9.2008 msv