THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU W.P. No. 25878 of 2007 O R D E R: This writ petition is filed seeking a Mandamus to declare the cancellation of assignment granted in favour of the petitioner on 24.8.1989 in respect of Ac.2-00 of land in Sy.No.402 of Suddapalle village in Peddamudium Mandal of Kadapa District by 2nd respondent as arbitrary and illegal and to set aside the same. According to the petitioner, he served the Army and retired in the year 1987 and under the quota of ex-serviceman he was assigned Ac.2-00 of land and D.K.T. Patta was issued on 24.8.1989. Thereafter, the petitioner got employment in Railways at Hyderabad. On 18.9.2007 the petitioner made a representation to 1st respondent stating that 3rd respondent high-handedly encroached into his land and laid ‘Sanaga’ seeds. He had also addressed letter to the Zilla Sainik Officer on 23.10.2007 in this regard. It seems during the pendency of the writ petition, along with the counter filed by the respondents, an order passed on 15.5.2007 cancelling the assignment in favour of the petitioner was produced. It is the contention of the petitioner that no notice of any kind was issued before passing the cancellation orders. Be that as it may, now the petitioner himself asserted that the patta granted in his favour was cancelled and the 3rd party was also put in possession of the property and that the order of cancellation was passed on 15.5.2007 itself and against the said order dated 15.5.2007, a statutory appeal is available before the 1st respondent - Revenue Divisional Officer, Jammalamadugu. Thus, the petitioner has an effective alternative remedy of appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Jammalamadugu. Therefore, the petitioner is directed to file statutory appeal against the orders passed by the 2nd respondent-Tahsildar dated 15.5.2007 and workout the remedies available to him under the law within a period of two weeks from today. On filing such appeal, the 1st respondent shall entertain the same without raising any objection as to limitation and decide the matter on its own merits after issuing notice to all the parties including 3rd respondent herein. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU. Date: 04-11-2009. Note: Issue C.C. in four days. (BO) MVB. MVB.