HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA W.P.No.14200 of 1998 Dated 26th day of March, 2007 Between: Harijan Manyam and five others .. Petitioners And The District Collector, Mahabubnagar and ten others .. Respondents O R D E R: This writ petition is filed seeking a mandamus to declare the action of the respondents 1 to 3 in trying to resume the petitioners’ land admeasuring Ac.3.00 guntas in S.No.1165/3 situated in Mahabubnagar, as arbitrary and illegal. The brief facts of the case are that the father of the 1st petitioner purchased an extent of Ac.3.00 guntas of land in S.No.1165/3 situated in Mahabubnagar from one Buchanna under a registered sale deed dated 8.7.1975 and the petitioners set up their families in that land. Now, their grievance is that the 3rd respondent-Mandal Revenue Officer, without giving any notice to them, issued a notice dated 5.1.1992 to Buchanna stating that the land in question was resumed and the sale effected by him is illegal. Having heard the learned counsel for both the parties and perused the material placed on record, this Court is of the view that there is an alternative remedy of revision as provided under Section 4(A) of A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (for short “the Act). Hence, this Court deems it appropriate to direct the petitioners to approach the revisional authority and file a revision before him within a period of three weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of the order, and on such filing, the revisional authority may consider the revision and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law after affording an opportunity to the petitioners to explain their case. As this Court, while ordering Rule Nisi, granted status quo, the same shall continue till the revision is filed. With the above observation, this writ petition is disposed of. No costs. ________________ 26.03.2007 bcj