IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALAKRISHNA TAMADA Writ Petition No.18396 of 1997 Dated: 31-01-2007 Between: 1. Kamgari Ram Reddy (Died) and 9 others. ... Petitioners and 1. The Commissioner of Survey, Settlement & Land Records, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Nampally, Hyderabad and 4 others. ... Respondents ORDER: This petition is ﬁled seeking mandamus directing the respondents 1 to 5 to implement the orders of the Joint Collector, Ranga Reddy District, dated 13-08-1979 vide Proceedings No.G8/VIK/Corr/309/65, by correcting the relevant records in respect of Sy.No.104 corresponding to new No.104/A, 104/AA measuring Ac.20-39 guntas, situated at Pudur village and Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, in the name of Ram Reddy s/o Anantha Reddy by deleting the name Narayan Reddy s/o Subba Reddy from khata in sethwar and wasoolbaqui and issue supplementary sethwar and consequently carryout necessary corrections in all the pahanies in pattedar column. 2. It is the case of petitioners that the ﬁrst petitioner is the absolute owner of the land in question, which was originally belongs to the father of the ﬁrst petitioner late Anantha Reddy and that during survey by mistake Survey No.104 was entered in the name of one Narayana Reddy, who was pattedar of adjacent lands. It is stated that in or about 1959 petitioners 2 to 5 purchased the said land from the ﬁrst petitioner and since then they have been in exclusive possession and enjoyment of the said land. It is further stated that on coming to know the mistake of recording the name of Narayana Reddy as pattedar in revenue records, ﬁrst petitioner ﬁled a petition and in pursuance of the same the Land Records Oﬃcer having inspected and enquired the details, gave his report stating that the land is not in possession of Narayana Reddy. 3. The grievance of the petitioners is that even though the third respondent herein, based on the report of the Land Records Oﬃcer, passed orders on 13-08-1979 for correction of records and recommended to the ﬁrst respondent to correct the records in respect of Sy.No.104, in the name of Ram Reddy s/o Anantha Reddy by deleting the name of Narayan Reddy s/o Subban Reddy from the khata, the respondents 1 and 2 failed to implement the said orders. 4. Heard learned counsel for the parties. 5. Learned Assistant Government Pleader on instructions submits that an appeal has been preferred and the appellate authority remanded the matter to the original authority i.e. the Collector, Ranga Reddy District. In support of the said contention, a copy of the proceedings of the Commissioner/Appellate authority, dated 06-12-1999 is produced. It is further submitted that the original authority has not disposed of the matter and thus the matter is still pending. 6. Having regard to the fact that the matter is pending before the original authority i.e., Collector, Ranga Reddy District, the Collector, Ranga Reddy is hereby directed to dispose of the matter as expeditiously as possible preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 7. With the above directions, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. _______________________________ JUSTICE GOPALAKRISHNA TAMADA Dt.31-01-2007 GLV