IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO : 24190 of 2000 Between: Koppisetti Satyanarayana, S/o Sruyanarayana, R/o Door No.14/125/3, Satyanarayanapuram, Rajahmundry Rural Mandal, East Godavari District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Sub-Collector, Rajahmundry, East Godavari District. 2 Mandal Revenue Officer, Rajahmundry Rural, Bommur, East Godavari District. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to to issur a Writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Certiorari calling for the records relating to the Impugned Order RC.No.B/591/2000 dt. 28.11.2000 from the 2nd Respondent and quash the same declaring the same as illegal, arbitrary, without jurisdiction and contrary to the Judgment of this Hon'ble Court rendered in S.A.No. 1063 of 1985 dt. 8.7.1997, and consequently direct the Respondents not to inter-fere with the peasceful Possession and enjoyment of the Petitioner's house bearing Door No.14/125/3, Satyanarayana puram, Rajahmundry Rural Mandal, East Godavari District, and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.P.R.K.AMERANDRA KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.24190 OF 2000 ORDER: Aggrieved by the order of the Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer dated 28.11.2000, the petitioner is said to have preferred an appeal to the 1st respondent along with a petition seeking stay. This Court, by order dated 07.12.2000, granted interim suspension of the operation of the impugned proceedings dated 28.11.2000. Sri P.R.K.Amarendra Kumar, Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that no orders have been passed by the appellate authority even on the stay application. Since the petitioner has already availed the alternative remedy of an appeal to the ﬁrst respondent he cannot simultaneously invoke the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. The Writ Petition is liable to be dismissed on this short ground alone. Since, however, there was an interim order for the past eight years in the petitioner’s favour it is but appropriate that the 1st respondent shall pass orders in the stay application ﬁled by the petitioner, after compliance with the procedural requirements, within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Till then status-quo as on today shall be maintained. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. ____________ 28-08-2008 GS