IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 14951 of 2008 Between: S. Pandu, S/o. Hanmaya, R/o. H.No. 17-1-391/2/22, Vishnu Nagar Sayeedabad, Hyderabad - A.P. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Collector, Hyderabad District, Nampally Station Road, Hyderabad. 2 The Tahsildar/M.R.O. Revenue Mandal, Sayeedabad, Hyderabad District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.MOHD. GHULAM HUSSAIN Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in trying to forcibly dispossess the petitioner from plot No.22 in Survey No.141/3 admeasuring 200 sq.yards situated at Sayeedabad, Hyderabad as illegal and arbitrary. Heard Sri Mohd. Ghulam Hussain, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue (Assignment) and perused the record. In his affidavit, the petitioner stated that he purchased the above- mentioned land under an agreement of sale on 13.07.1988 on the bona fide impression that the said land was a private patta land. Subsequently, he came to know that he was misled by his vendor and that the land in his occupation belongs to the Government. He further averred that in pursuance of G.O.Ms.No.166, dated 16.02.2008, he submitted an application on 23.06.2008 for regularisation of his unauthorized possession. The petitioner alleged that on 07.07.2008, respondent No.2 came to the said property with subordinates and labourers and tried to demolish the boundary wall and a room and forcibly dispossess the petitioner from the said property. The grievance of the petitioner is that while his application for regularisation in terms of the above mentioned G.O., is pending, the action of the respondents in seeking to forcibly dispossess him from the above mentioned property is illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner’s grievance, as noted above, is confined to the action of the respondents in seeking to dispossess him without considering his application for regularisation. The petitioner filed a copy of the application along with a copy of the acknowledgment, which contains 23.06.2008 as the date, on which the application was received by the Regularisation Facilitation Centre (I/c). A perusal of G.O.Ms.No.166, dated 16.02.2008 shows that it provides for regularisation of unauthorized occupation of Government lands subject to the conditions mentioned therein. Inasmuch as the petitioner claims that he submitted an application for regularisation and the same is pending, there is no justification for the respondents to forcibly dispossess him even before the said application is considered and disposed of. In this view of the matter, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to respondent No.1 to consider and dispose of the application of the petitioner, if already received, for regularisation. Pending disposal of the said application, the respondents shall not dispossess the petitioner from the property in his occupation. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP.No.19321 of 2008 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 11th JULY, 2008. kvni