THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.5090 OF 2011 DATED 1ST MARCH, 2011 BETWEEN Shaik Musthafa and others …Petitioners And The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Represented by Principal Secretary (Revenue Dept.), Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad and others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.5090 OF 2011 ORDER: The petitioners are aggrieved by interference with their possession and enjoyment over their house properties situated in Survey Nos.222 and 223 of Madinaguda Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, by the revenue and municipal authorities. It is the case of the petitioners that they purchased the subject house plots under simple sale deeds in the years 1988-89. They thereafter paid requisite stamp duty on these documents under Section 42 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899. As there was a threat to their possession over these house plots in the year 2008, the petitioners submitted applications under G.O.Ms.No.166, Revenue (Assignment POT) Department, dated 16.02.2008 seeking regularization of their possession over the subject house plots under the provisions thereof. The said applications were received in August, 2008 and are said to be pending. While so, it is their grievance that in spite of the pendency of their applications under G.O.Ms.No.166 dated 16.02.2008, the revenue and municipal authorities were continuously interfering with their possession and threatening to dispossess them. Hence, this writ petition. The material produced by the petitioners evidences that their applications made under G.O.Ms.No.166 dated 16.02.2008 were received by the office of the Tahsildar, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, in August, 2008. That being so, this Court does not deem it appropriate to go into the merits of the case. Once it is established that applications were submitted by the petitioners under G.O.Ms.No.166 dated 16.02.2008 and are pending consideration, it would be in the interest of justice that the competent authority, the District Collector, Ranga Reddy District, pass orders thereupon in accordance with law. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of directing the District Collector, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad, to consider and pass appropriate orders upon the applications filed by the petitioners under G.O.Ms.No.166 dated 16.02.2008 in accordance with law. Pending such consideration, the respondents shall maintain status quo with regard to the petitioners’ possession over the subject plots in Survey Nos.222 and 223 of Madinaguda Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. No order as to costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J. 1ST MARCH, 2011. Note: Issue C.C. by 04.03.2011. B/O VGSR/PGS