IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 14730 of 2008 Between: 1 Mora Pedda Narsaiah S/o Bakkaiah 2 Mora Raju bai W/o Chinna Narsaiah 3 Mora Shankaraiah S/o Bakkaiah 4 Mora Venkati S/o Ramulu 5 Mora Bheemaiah S/o Ramulu 6 Mora Shantha W/o Venkati 7 Jakkula Swamy S/o Venkaiah 8 Dyana Boina Mallaiah S/o peddavenkanna 9 Dyana Boini Bheemakka W/o late Erra Mallaiah, 10 Dyana Boini Gangamallu W/o late Chinna enkaiah, 11 Bingi Pedda Bhoomaiah S/o Narshimlu 12 Pedakanti Chinnaiah S/o Gangaram, All the petitioners are R/o Raikal village & Mandal, Karimnagar District ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Land Acquisition Officer, Revenue Divisional Officer, Jagtial, Karimnagr District. 2 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Raikal mandal, Karimnagar District. ....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.A.SUDERSHAN REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is filed for a writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in seeking to dispossess the petitioners from the land admeasuring Acs.8.30 guntas in Survey Nos.775, 775/E, 775/A, 775/AA, 774, 774/2, 776/2 and 775/E of Raikal Village and Mandal, Karimnagar District as illegal and unconstitutional. The petitioners sought for a consequential direction not to dispossess them from the said lands. Heard Sri A.Sudershan Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners, and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue. The petitioners claim to be the owners of the above mentioned lands. On an earlier occasion, they filed W.P.No.26142 of 2005 in this Court questioning the proposed action of the respondents in seeking to dispossess them without following due process of law. The said writ petition was disposed of by order dated 09-12-2005, wherein this Court took note of the contention of the learned Assistant Government Pleader that though there is a proposal for assignment of the land towards house sites to landless poor persons, as on that day no action was initiated to acquire the same. Having regard to the said submission, the writ petition was dismissed as having been filed on mere apprehension. In the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition, the petitioners categorically alleged that having not initiated any action since the time of the filing of the earlier writ petition and not interfered with their possession since then, the respondents are now seeking to dispossess them without following due process of law. In the light of the submission made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, it is required to be observed that the respondents cannot forcibly dispossess the petitioners from their lands without following the procedure prescribed by law. In this view of the matter, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondents not to interfere with the possession of the petitioners in respect of their patta lands comprised in the survey numbers mentioned above without following due process of law. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP No.19042 of 2008 filed by the petitioners for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:10th July, 2008 Note: Issue C.C in three days vrn