HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V. ESWARAIAH W.P. No. 7017 of 2005 DATED: 24.02.2011 Between: Ranga Sreeshailam and another .. Petitioners And 1. The Revenue Divisional Officer 2. The Mandal Revenue Officer .. Respondents O R D E R:- The case of the petitioners is that the 1st petitioner purchased an extent of Ac.3.08 gunats of land in Sy.No.186/E and the 2nd petitioner purchased an extent of Ac.3.08 guntas in Sy.No.186 situated at Mancherial village and Mandal, Adilabad District from their vendors, by virtue of the registered sale deeds dated 03.10.2002 and 04.12.2002 respectively, and since then, they have been in peaceful possession and enjoyment of the lands. Now, the main grievance of the petitioners is that the 1st respondent-Revenue Divisional Officer, without issuing any notice to them, passed the impugned proceedings dated 26.02.2005 cancelling the assignment of lands made in favour of the petitioners’ vendors and directing the 2nd respondent-Mandal Revenue Officer, Mancherial to resume the lands in question into Government custody. Hence, the petitioners have filed the present writ petition questioning the impugned proceedings. Admittedly, against the proceedings issued by the 1st respondent-Revenue Divisional Officer, an appeal lies to the District Collector as contemplated under Section 4(A)(2) of the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977, but the petitioners, without exhausting the appropriate remedy of filing an appeal, have directly filed this writ petition. Hence, this Court is inclined to dispose of the writ petition with the following directions: “The petitioners are directed to avail alternative remedy of filing an appeal before the District Collector as may be available under law, within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Till such time, both the parties are directed to maintain status quo obtaining as on today. With the above directions, this writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. ________________ V. ESWARAIAH, J 24th February, 2011 Note: Furnish copy in one week B/o bcj