THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.28513 OF 2011 ORDER: The relief sought for in this writ petition is to declare the action of the 2nd respondent in not passing any orders on the stay application filed by the petitioner, in the appeal preferred by him against the order of the Tahsildar, Keesara Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, as arbitrary and illegal. The petitioner claims to have purchased an extent of 2.00 acres of land in Survey No. 473/2 of Nagaram Village from his vendor who was assigned the land under the Laoni Rules. According to the petitioner, since there is no condition of non-alienation under the Laoni Rules, transfer of assigned land by the original assignee to the petitioner herein does not attract the provisions of the A.P. Assigned Land (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (A.P. Act 9 of 1977). Aggrieved by the order of the Tahsildar, passed under Section 3 of Act 9 of 1977, the petitioner preferred an appeal to the Revenue Divisional Officer on 13.7.2011 along with an application seeking stay of the order passed by the Tahsildar. As no orders were passed by the 2nd respondent either in the appeal, or in the stay application, the petitioner has invoked the jurisdiction of this Court. Learned Government Pleader for Revenue (Assignments), on instructions, states that, in view of the earlier boycott of work by the staff, the appeal could not be taken up; and the said appeal itself is listed for hearing on 5.11.2011. I consider it appropriate, therefore, to direct the 2nd respondent to pass orders, either on the stay application or the appeal itself, latest by 15.11.2011. The writ petition stands disposed of accordingly. No costs. __________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J October 28, 2011 pnb