HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY CONTEMPT CASE No.432 of 2010 Date: 25.04.2011 Between : Kunam Devi & others. …….Petitioners And State of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by the District Collector, Prakasam District & others. ….Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY CONTEMPT CASE No.432 of 2010 ORDER : This contempt case is filed alleging that the respondents have violated the directions of this Court in the order, dated 29th of June 2009, passed in WPMP.No.16460 of 2009 in W.P.No.12731 of 2009. Petitioners, who claim to be the assignees, have filed the writ petition in W.P.No.12731 of 2009, when they were tried to be evicted from their house sites. This Court, by way of interim order, dated 29th June 2009, directed the respondents not to dispossess the petitioners from the house site pattas bearing Plot Nos.12, 1, 2, 3 and 8, situated in Sy.No.297/18 of Kandukur village, without following due process of law. It is the case of the petitioners that they are dispossessed contrary to the directions of this Court. A detailed counter affidavit is filed by the Tahsildar of Kandukur Mandal. While denying the various allegations made by the petitioners, it is stated in the counter that there were no assignments in favour of petitioners and that they were not in possession of the plots in question, as such, the question of dispossessing them, will not arise. Except the contention of petitioners that they were dispossessed, there is no other material to show that they were in possession of the house sites and that they were dispossessed. In view of the averment made in the counter that the petitioners were not granted pattas and that they are not in possession of the plots in question, it cannot be said that the respondents have violated the directions of this Court, attracting the provisions of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. For the aforesaid reasons, this contempt case is closed. However, it is made clear that if the petitioners are entitled for grant of house site pattas, this order will not preclude them from moving the authorities concerned, for grant of such pattas. _____________________ R.SUBHASH REDDY, J 25th April 2011 ajr