HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.20182 of 2010 Date 07.09.2010 Between: P.Mohd. Mustafa. ..... PETITIONER AND The Govt. of A.P., rep. By Principal Secretary, Revenue Dept. Secretariat, Hyderabad and another. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the petitioner :Sri S.D.Gowd Counsel for the Respondent : Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.20182 of 2010 ORDER: The only grievance of the petitioner in this Writ Petition is that respondent No.2 has not been disposing of the petitioner’s application for issuance of pattadar pass book in respect of Ac.4.86 cents of land comprised in Sy.No.622-1 of Kanekal Village and Mandal, Anantapur District. According to the petitioner, his father was assigned the above-mentioned land and that his father died on 12.02.2010. He contended that in the month of February, 2010, the petitioner and his brother have approached respondent No.2 through their counsel for mutation of their names in the revenue records and issuance of pattadar pass books. When the petitioner approached the Legal Services Authority on the inaction of respondent No.2, the latter is stated to have filed a counter affidavit stating that as the petitioner’s father has not cultivated the land, the same was resumed and was handed over to the APSWR School for construction of residential Junior College. The grievance of the petitioner is that no enquiry was held nor an order under the provisions of the A.P. Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 (for short ‘the Act’) has been passed. When an application for correction of entries in the revenue records is made, it is incumbent upon respondent No.2 to pass an order after determining whether, and if so in what manner, the record of rights may be amended. If an order refusing to amend the revenue records is passed, the aggrieved party can file an appeal against such an order. Therefore, non-passing of the order by respondent No.2 is not in conformity with the provisions of the Act. The Writ Petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent No.2 to pass an order on the petitioner’s application for mutation in the revenue records and communicate the same to the petitioner within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. If the petitioner feels aggrieved by such an order, he is entitled to avail the appropriate remedy under the Act. As a sequel to disposal of the main petition, WPMP.No.25609 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:07.09.2010 usd