HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.28415 of 2010 Date : 16-11-2010 Between : Chava Ravibabu s/o.Veera Narayana .. Petitioner And The District Collector, Prakasam District at Ongole and another .. Respondents Counsel for petitioner : Sri I.Koti Reddy Counsel for respondents : Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue The Court made the following : ORDER: The Writ Petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the action of respondent No.2 in seeking to interfere with quarry operations of the petitioner over 2-00 hectares of land, situate in Sy.No.788/1 of Bodduvanipalem village, Korisapadu Mandal, Prakasam District as illegal and without jurisdiction. The petitioner claims that he holds a quarry lease granted by the Department of Mines and Geology on 1-11-2007 for quarrying road metal and in pursuance of agreement dated 20-6-2008, he has stared quarry operations. According to the petitioner, in the lease deed Sy.No.788/p was mentioned in stead of Sy.No.788/1 and that an application for correction of this mistake has been filed before the competent authority. The petitioner further stated that when the neighbouring land owner by name Medarametla Ravi Kiran started raising objection to the quarry operations, he has applied for survey by paying requisite fee to respondent No.2 on 7-12-2009. The grievance of the petitioner is that while dodging the petitioner’s application for survey, respondent No.2 has been sending his officials to the petitioner’s quarry site who are threatening the quarry workers of registration of criminal cases against them if they continue the quarry operations. The learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue, on instructions, submitted that on Sri Medarametala Ravi Kiran approaching respondent No.2 with a claim that the petitioner is in occupation of the land belonging to him, he has ordered for a survey and that respondent No.2 has never sent his subordinates to interfere with the petitioner’s quarry operations. In a private dispute between two pattadars, the revenue authorities have no power or jurisdiction to interfere. At the best, if a person approaches with an application for survey and demarcation of boundaries, they are entitled to cause the survey conducted and the boundaries demarcated. Of late, complaints of undue interference by revenue officials galore by way of Writ Petitions in this court. If such complaints bear truth, it does not augur well for an orderly society, for it is no part of the duty of the revenue officials to interfere in a private dispute between two pattadars as the power of adjudication of such disputes is vested only in competent civil courts. Respondent No.2, therefore, will do well to stay away from the dispute between the petitioner and his neighbouring land owner except to the extent of causing the survey conducted and the boundaries demarcated. Subject to the above directions, the Writ Petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, WPMP Nos.36253 & 36254/2010 are disposed of as infructuous. ____________________ C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy.,J Date: 16-11-2010 AM