HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 3067 of 2008 Dated 15th February, 2008 Between Nukala Venkanna and ors …Petitioners and The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. By its Secretary, Social Welfare (LTR.II) Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad, and, ors …Respondents. THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 3067 of 2008 ORDER: In this Writ Petition, the petitioners question the order dated 6-10- 2007 passed by the revisional authority-first respondent vide letter No.5670/LTR.2/70-2 in the revision petition filed under the A.P. Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulation 1/1959, as amended by Regulation 1/1970. The petitioners claim title and possession over the land admeasuring less than Ac.1.00 guntas each. It is stated that they are non-tribals and they have purchased the said land from non-tribal in the year 1968, i.e. prior to enforcement of prohibition of transfers of lands belonging to tribals under the A.P. Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulation 1/1959, as amended by Regulation 1/1970. It is further stated that though the said transaction is not in violation of the said Regulation, but however, the primary authority has passed orders for eviction dated 28-12-1998 in LTR Case No. 215/1998/ASP. It is stated that against the said eviction order, they have preferred appeal in CMA.No.26 of 1999 before the appellate authority, who confirmed the order of eviction, by order dated 7-10-2007. The petitioners carried the matter in revision before the first respondent. Pending revision petition, they moved an application for grant of interim order. However, the said request was rejected by the revisional authority by order dated 6-10-2007, stating that there are no justifiable grounds. Heard the learned Counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondents. In view of the pendecy of the revision petition, it is not desirable to record any finding on the merits of the claim of the petitioners. As much as it is submitted by the learned Counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners had purchased the land in the year 1968 and since then, they are in continuous and uninterrupted possession, I dispose of the Writ Petition directing the first respondent-revisional authority to dispose of the revision petition filed by the petitioners on 12-7-2007 as expeditiously as possible, by issuing prior notice of hearing to the petitioners, and counsel on record. Further, there shall be a direction to the respondents not to enforce the order of eviction dated 28-12-1998 till the disposal of the revision petition and allow the petitioners to be in possession of the lands in question. Subject to the above direction, the Writ Petition is disposed of at the admission stage. No order as to costs. ---------------------------------- JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY DATE: 15-2-2008. Msnr.