IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 20841 of 2008 Between: Meka Ravi Kumar S/o.Meka Panduranga Rao Paravada village & Mandal Visakhapatnam District ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The District Collector, Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Paravada Visakhapatnam District 3 The Mandal Revenue officer, Atchutapuram Mandal Visakhapatnam District .....RESPONDENTS 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 issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ order or direction declaring inaction of the respondents herein in not incorporating the name of the petitioner herein in the Revenue records and not issuing pattadar pass books to him in spite of repeated requests made by him as illegal, arbitrary, and contrary to the provisions of Revenue Laws and further direct the respondent authorities to incorporate the name of the petitioner herein in the Records and also issue pattadar pass books to him immediately and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.RAMA RAO MAVIDI Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following Order: This writ petition is ﬁled by the petitioner seeking a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not incorporating his name in the revenue records and issuing pattadar passbooks in his favour, in spite of repeated requests, as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner is said to be the owner and possessor of a total extent of Ac.3.43 cents of land in Sy.No.120 of Cheemalapalli Village, Atchutapuram Mandal, Visakhapatnam District, having purchased Ac.0.57 cents and Ac.2.86 cents from Sri Kantamreddi Appanna and Sri Nagireddi Apparao and others, through sale deeds dated 03-04-2008 and 20-06-2007 respectively. The grievance of the petitioner is that though he made several representations to the third respondent-Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer, Atchutapuram Mandal, Visakapatnam, seeking incorporation of his name in the revenue records, the respondents, so far, has not incorporated his name in the revenue records and issued pattadar pass books in his favour. Hence the writ petition. Learned Government Pleader for Revenue submits that the petitioner has to ﬁle application under Form VI(A) of the A.P.Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 (for short ‘the Act’) to the Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer for incorporation of his name in revenue records and grant of pattadar pass books and then, the Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer will consider and pass orders on the said application. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue and at their request, the writ petition itself is being disposed of at the admission stage. Both the counsel agreed to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the third respondent-Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer, Atchutapuram Mandal, to consider the application to be ﬁled by the petitioner for incorporation of his name in the revenue records and grant of pattadar pass books. In the circumstances, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the petitioner to ﬁle an application under Form VI(A) of the Act to the third respondent-Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer, Atchutapuram, for incorporation of his name in the revenue records and grant of pattadar pass books, and on such application being ﬁled, the third respondent is directed to consider and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law within a period of four months thereafter. No order as to costs. _______________ N.V.RAMANA,J Dt: 24-09-2008 usd To 1 The District Collector, Visakhapatnam, Visakhapatnam District 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Paravada Visakhapatnam District 3 The Mandal Revenue officer, Atchutapuram Mandal Visakhapatnam District 4 Two CCs to GP for Revenue, High Court Buildings, Hyderabad (OUT). 5 Two CD copies.