THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.2262 of 2009 ORDER: The Tahsildar, Renigunta Mandal, Chittoor District, the second respondent herein, passed individual orders against the petitioners herein on 04.01.2008 in exercise of the powers under Section 4 of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act 1977. The petitioners state that they have preferred appeals before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Tirupathi, the first respondent herein, together with an application for stay. Their grievance is that the first respondent has not passed any orders either in the appeals or in the applications filed for stay and that in the meanwhile, the second respondent is trying to take possession of the land. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue. Feeling aggrieved by the orders passed by the second respondent on 04.01.2008, the petitioners availed the remedy of appeal. Though they have filed applications for stay, they did not press it, since there was no threat of dispossession. It is now represented that the second respondent is taking steps to dispossess the petitioners. In case the petitioners are dispossessed even while the appeals are pending, the very purpose would be defeated. Hence, the writ petition is disposed of directing that the petitioners shall not be dispossessed from the land in question in pursuance of the orders, dated 04.01.2008, passed by the second respondent, till the deposal of the appeals by the first respondent. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt:10.02.2009 kdl