The Hon'ble Sri Justice C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy Writ Petition No.14925 of 2010 Date: 27-09-2010 Between: Smt.Seetha Devi and 4 others ..... Petitioners AND The Tahsildar, Mandal Mancherial, Adilabad District .....Respondent Counsel for the Petitioners: Mr.Gajanand Chakravarthy Counsel for the respondent: AGP for Revenue Order: This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to direct the respondent to get the survey, demarcation done and boundaries fixed for the petitioners’ land admeasuring 498 square yards in Survey No.49 of Naspur Village, Mancherial Mandal, Adilabad District. I have heard Sri Gajanand Chakravarthi, learned Counsel for the petitioners, and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue representing the respondents. The petitioners claim to be the owners of the above- mentioned property, having purchased the same under registered sale deeds of various dates of the year 1985. The petitioners also claimed that their names were mutated in the revenue records. The petitioners are stated to have made representation, dated 26-02-2010, to the respondent for survey and demarcation of the said land by paying the requisite fee vide Challan No.30419, dated 10- 02-2010. It is further averred by the petitioners that the respondent has orally fixed ‘05-03-2010’ as the date for survey of the land in question and required the petitioners to be present there at 10.00 a.m., on that day and that though the deponent of the affidavit was waiting through out the day, the respondent has not arrived. In support of their plea that they have paid the requisite fee, the petitioners have filed a photocopy of the above-said Challan. No counter-affidavit is filed by the respondent nor any instructions have been reported on his behalf. Under the Andhra Pradesh Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923 (for short ‘the Act’), the petitioners are entitled to seek survey and demarcation of the land in case of boundary disputes. The Mandal Surveyor functions under the Control of the respondent. If the petitioners have approached the respondent with a request to survey and demarcate the land in question, on their complying with the statutory formalities of the Act, the respondent shall accept such a request. As the respondent failed to controvert any of the allegations contained in the affidavit filed in support of the Writ Petition, this Writ Petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondent to consider the petitioners’ representation for survey and demarcation of the land in question and, on their complying with the required legal formalities, make arrangements therefor within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, WPMP.No.18804 of 2010, filed by the petitioners for interim relief, is disposed of as infructuous. ___________________________ (C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J) 27th September, 2010 lur