THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO SECOND APPEAL No. 1007 of 2009 J U D G M E N T: This Second Appeal has been preferred by the defendants in the suit. Respondents 1 to 5 herein have instituted O.S.No. 8 of 2004 on the file of the Junior Civil Judge, Boath and the same was decreed on 19.12.2005. Then the present appellants carried the matter in appeal by instituting A.S.No.7 of 2006 in the Court of the District Judge, Adilabad which was dismissed on 22.06.2009. That is how, the present Second Appeal came to be instituted. The substantial questions of law that arise for consideration have been raised in Ground No. 15 of the memorandum of grounds of Second Appeal. Inter alia, it is contended that the suit instituted by the respondents/plaintiffs is not maintainable as the civil Court lacks jurisdiction to try the issue, inasmuch the lands are situate in agency area. It is appropriate, at this stage, to notice that a Division Bench of this Court in Ashifaquddin v. Mohd. Azizuddin[1], had an occasion to consider as to whether the civil Court’s jurisdiction has been barred to try the disputes relating to lands situated in scheduled areas. Like in the aforementioned case, here in this appeal also, the parties are non- tribals. After exhaustively reviewing the entire case law on the subject, the learned Judges of the Division Bench concluded the issue in the following words: “ It therefore follows that the suits out of which these appeals arise, were cognizable by the Civil Courts in which they were instituted and that the judgments rendered and decrees passed by the said Courts cannot be said to be null and void for want of jurisdiction.” In view of this authoritative pronouncement and also in view of its binding nature on me, I do not consider that the substantial questions of law framed for consideration in the Second Appeal are available for adjudication any longer by this Court. Hence, the Second Appeal is dismissed at the stage of admission. No costs. ---------------------------------- (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) 05th March 2010 ksld [1] AIR 1978 Andhra Pradesh 354