IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 17863 of 2008 Between: Bodepudi Hanumantha Rao S/o.Venkaiah R/o.Konuru Village, Atchampet Mandal, Guntur District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Tahsildar, Atchampet Mandal, Guntur District. 2 The District Collector, Guntur District Guntur. ....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.B.CHINNAPPA REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: AGP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is filed for a writ of Mandamus to set aside proceedings dated 16- 05-2008 issued by respondent No.1 as illegal and arbitrary. Heard Sri B.Chinnappa Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue and perused the record. A perusal of the impugned order shows that the house site patta granted in favour of the petitioner for an extent of Ac.0.05 cents in Survey Nos.224/A and 221/B of Konuru Village, Atchampet Mandal, Guntur District was cancelled on the alleged ground that the petitioner sold the said property through an unregistered agreement. Under Section 4-A of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfer) Act, 1977, against every order of resumption, an appeal lies to the Revenue Divisional Officer. As the petitioner has an efficacious alternative remedy of filing appeal, I am not inclined to entertain this writ petition. Therefore, the writ petition is dismissed with liberty to the petitioner to file an appeal. As the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that there is imminent threat of the petitioner’s dispossession, status quo as on today shall be maintained for a period of four (4) weeks. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition, WPMP No.23256 of 2008 is dismissed as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 18th August, 2008 vrn