THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.5070 OF 2002 DATED:18.06.2010 Between: Smt. V.Lakshmi Devi .. Petitioner And The Mandal Revenue Officer, Shaikpet, Hyderabad .. Respondent THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.5070 of 2002 ORDER: The petitioner purchased Plot No.60 admeasuring 303 square yards comprised in Survey Nos.129/97 and 129/110 of Shaikpet Village from one D.Amarender Reddy, who had purchased the property from Sagar Co-operative Society, Shaikpet, Hyderabad, under a registered sale deed 03.10.1989. Alleging that the respondent is interfering with the construction activity taken up by her, she filed the instant Writ Petition. Counsel for the petitioner relies on an unreported judgment in Y.Manohar Chowdary v The Government of Andhra Pradesh[1]. Dealing with similar cases wherein some persons having purchased the house sites from either Sagar Co-operative Society or its members complaining the Mandal Revenue Officer’s interference, this Court disposed of the Writ Petitions in the following manner. In all these writ petitions, the grievance of the petitioners is that without any prior notice, the Mandal Revenue Officer is trying to interfere with the construction activity, though all the petitioners allegedly obtained Municipal sanction from the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad. In some of the cases, the petitioners are not even made parties to L.G.C.No.21 of 1999. If the Government has already initiated action under the Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition), Act, 1982 (the Act), nothing prevented the Government to obtain appropriate interim orders prohibiting such construction on the disputed land. Instead of doing so, allegedly, the Mandal Revenue Officer is trying to prevent the construction activity, which cannot be approved. Therefore, these writ petitions are disposed of declaring that the action of the Mandal Revenue Officer, Shaikpet, in preventing the construction activity would be illegal. It is, however, open to the respondents to approach the Special Court constituted under the Act and obtain appropriate orders regarding the construction that is being made by the petitioners, with or without sanction from the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad. No costs. Following the above order, this Writ Petition also stands disposed of in similar terms. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ (V.V.S. RAO, J) 18.06.2010 KH [1] W.P.No.24401 of 2001 and batch, dated 20.07.2004