IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO : 17346 of 2009 Between: Vanka Nagaraju . .Petitioner And State of Andhra Pradesh, rep. By its Principal Secretary to Home Department And others. .. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA WRIT PETITION NO.17346 OF 2009 ORDER: The petitioner filed this Writ Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents 1 to 5 in not providing police aid for cultivation of the petitioner’s land of Ac.40.13 cents situated at Kovvada Village being schedule property of a decree dated 28.02.2009 in O.S. No.10 of 2008 passed by the 3rd respondent and not initiating necessary action on the representation dated 03.08.2009 submitted by the petitioner as illegal and arbitrary and consequently direct the respondents to grant necessary police aid for the petitioner. 2) Brief facts are that when the petitioner approached the respondents 2 to 5 and submitted a representation on 03.08.2009 requesting to take necessary action against the violators of injunction decree, which was passed on 28.02.2009 by the 3rd respondent and to give police aid for cultivation of the lands of the petitioner and when the respondents did not respond properly, the petitioner approached this Court and filed the present writ petition. Earlier, this Court was pleased to direct the Assistant Government Pleader for Home to get instructions from the respondents. 3) The Assistant Government Pleader for Home, on instructions, submits that the dispute as alleged by the petitioner is purely civil in nature and the Station House Officer, the 5th respondent herein, addressed a letter to the Tahsildar, 4th respondent, to submit a report with regard to the legal status of the petitioner over the land in question and as and when the report is received, necessary action will be initiated. 4) Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, apparently, there are civil disputes between the parties and in that regard a civil suit in O.S. No.10 of 2008 was instituted and the 3rd respondent also passed a decree dated 28.02.2009. 5) In the light of the said decree dated 28.02.2009 and also in the light of the said instructions by the 5th respondent, this Court is of the view that this writ petition can be disposed at the stage of admission with a direction to the 5th respondent-Station House Officer, Buttayagudem Police Station, to act on the basis of the report to be received by him from the 4th respondent, Tahsildar. 6) With the above directions, this writ petition is disposed of at the stage of admission. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________________ (GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA, J) August 28, 2009 KSH