THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.32751 of 2011 ORDER: The action of the respondents, in seeking to dispossess the petitioners from the lands in Sy.Nos.96, 98, 174, 167-3 and 167-4 of Ubalanka Village, Ravulapalem Mandal, East Godavari District, is questioned in this Writ Petition as being illegal and arbitrary. The petitioners, ten in number, claim to be in continuous possession of the aforesaid lands by virtue of the D-form pattas having been granted in their favour. It is their grievance that the staff of the third respondent visited the subject lands on 23.11.2011, and insisted that they vacate therefrom. Aggrieved thereby, the present Writ Petition. When the matter was listed on 21.12.2011, Learned Government Pleader for Revenue (Assignment) sought time to obtain instructions. Today the Learned Government Pleader, on instructions, would submit that the subject lands are government lands; no pattas have been granted in the petitioners’ favour in respect of the subject lands; and the respondents would evict the petitioners only in accordance with law. Once it is admitted that the petitioners are in occupation of the subject lands, even if those lands belong to government, the petitioners can only be evicted in accordance with law including the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Land Encroachment Act, 1905 (the Act). Leaving it open to the respondents to take necessary action to evict the petitioners from the subject lands in accordance with law including the provisions of the Act, the respondents are directed not to forcibly evict them till then. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J Date:20.12.2011 usd