THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.25270 of 2011 ORDER: The relief sought for in this Writ Petition is to declare the action of Revenue Divisional Officer, Anantapur (respondent No.1), in not disposing of the appeal filed by the petitioner against the possession certificate dated 27.09.2008, issued by respondent No.2 in favour of respondent Nos.3 to 9, as arbitrary and illegal. Facts, to the limited extent necessary, are that the petitioner claims to have purchased the land, admeasuring Ac.0.30 cents in Sy.No.141-2B of Anantapur Village and Mandal, Anantapur District, from Sri M.Ramanjaneyulu and Sri Parandhamudu, by way of a registered sale deed dated 31.03.2010, and to be in continuous possession thereafter. It is his grievance that respondent Nos.3 to 9 are in unauthorised occupation of the road margin area and, based on a possession certificate issued by respondent No.2 in favour of respondent Nos.3 to 9, Sri M.Ramanjaneyulu is said to have preferred Appeal No.93 of 2009 before respondent No.1 in which the petitioner got himself impleaded. The fact that an appeal is pending before him is not disputed in the counter affidavit filed by respondent No.1. It is also stated that the appeal is listed on 15.10.2011 ‘for hearing’. Since the appeal is said to have been entertained by respondent No.1, I consider it wholly unnecessary to examine the contentions urged on merits, as it would suffice to direct respondent No.1 to dispose of the appeal, after giving all the parties to the appeal an opportunity of being heard, on or before 31.10.2011 in accordance with law. The Writ Petition stands disposed of accordingly. No order as to costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J Date:23.09.2011 usd