HON’BLE SHRI G.S.SINGHVI, THE CHIEF JUSTICE WRIT PETITION No.12424 of 1996 Between: Amarapu Satyaranayana …Petitioner. AND Mandal Revenue Officer, Kaikalur, Krishna District & others. …Respondents. :: O R D E R :: Counsel for the Petitioner : Sri P.Srinivasa Rao, Advocate representing Sri P.Sri Raghu Ram Counsel for Respondents 1 & 3 : Government Pleader for Revenue Counsel for Respondent No.2 : None 19th APRIL 2006 In this petition, the petitioner has prayed for directing the respondents not to dispossess him from land measuring Ac.0.50 cents comprised in Survey No.179/2 in Tamarakollu village, Kaikalur Mandal, Krishna District without following the procedure established by law and to quash the proceedings initiated by Mandal Surveyer, Mandal Revenue Office, Kaikalur. Learned counsel for the petitioner says that his client may be permitted to withdraw the writ petition with liberty to file an application for allotment of the land in question on payment of market price. Learned Government Plaeder for Revenue says that he does not have any objection. In view of the above, the writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty in terms of the prayer made. However, it is made clear that the liberty granted by the Court shall not be construed as a mandate for assignment or transfer of the land in question to the petitioner and the concerned authority shall decide the application, if any made by him strictly in accordance with law uninfluenced by the fact that he has continued in possession by virtue of the Court’s order and otherwise. G.S. SINGHVI, C.J. 19th April, 2006. ARS