IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION Nos.9510 and 10203 of 2001 WRIT PETITION No.9510 of 2001 Between: Bijjam Raghurami Reddy and others ..... PETITIONERS AND The District Collector, Nellore and others .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:NONE APPEARED Counsel for the Respondent:NONE APPEARED WRIT PETITION No.10203 of 2001 Between: 1 Bijjam Venkata Ramana Reddy, S/o. Seshu Reddy, R/o. Kandamuru Village, Nellore Rural Mandal, Nellore District. 2 Danda Penchalaiah, S/o. Penchalal Naidu, R/o. Kandamuru Village, Nellore Rural Mandal, Nellore District. 3 Gottigundala Sulochana, W/o. Venkaiah, R/o. Kandamuru Village, Nellore Rural Mandal, Nellore District. 4 Danda Krishnaiah, S/o. Penchalanaidu, R/o. Kandamuru Village, Nellore Rural Mandal, Nellore District. 5 Danda Sheshaiah, S/o. Penchalanaidu, R/o. Kandamuru Village, Nellore Rural Mandal, Nellore District. 6 Danda Subbaiah, S/o. Penchalnaidu, R/o. Kandamuru Village, Nellore Rural Mandal, Nellore District. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The District Collector, Nellore. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Nellore, Nellore District. 3 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Nellore, Nellore District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:NONE APPEARED Counsel for the Respondents:NONE APPEARED The Court made the following : COMMON ORDER: These two writ petitions involve common issues and hence, they are taken up for disposal together. At the hearing, there is no representation for the parties. Perused the record. The petitioners were granted pattas of different extents of agricultural land by proceedings, dated 29.01.2001 of respondent No.3. On the representation made by one Polepalli China Penchalaiah and 30 others of Kandamur Village, respondent No.2 vide his proceedings, dated 31.01.2001 stayed the grant of pattas until further orders. A perusal of the impugned proceedings shows that respondent N o.2 prima facie found that pattas were granted in favour of the petitioners in violation of the decision in 1997 by the revenue authorities to grant pattas to include the lands in Common Joint Farming Society (CJFS) for allotting the same to the Scheduled Caste beneficiaries. In my considered view, the impugned proceedings being interim in nature, the petitioners ought to have approached respondent No.2 seeking vacation of the said proceedings instead of approaching this Court invoking its extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. In this view of the matter, both the writ petitions are dismissed with liberty to the petitioners to approach respondent No.2 for vacating the interim order granted by him. As a sequel to dismissal of main petitions, interim orders, dated 15.05.2001 and 22.05.2001 are vacated and WPMP.Nos.12037 and 12764 of 2001 in W.P.Nos.9510 and 10203 of 2001 respectively, are dismissed. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 2nd MARCH, 2009. kvni