THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.21045 OF 2008 DATED: 13.11.2009 Between: Kuna Revathi and others .. Petitioners And The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary to Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others. .. Respondents ORDER: Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for the respondents. According to the petitioners, they are landless poor persons and have been living in small rented huts and sheds for the last more than fifteen years in Sri Ram Nagar Colony, Marripalem Village, Visakhapatnam. It is their case that the land in Sy.No.107 of Marripalem Village, Visakhapatnam District, is proposed to be allotted as house sites to the landless poor persons and they, being the local residents and landless poor persons, are entitled for allotment of house sites, but, in spite of their requests and the representation dated 30.07.2008, the respondent authorities have not been considering their cases and have been contemplating to allot house sites to ineligible persons, as per their whims and fancies. In the counter-affidavit filed by the respondents, it is stated that the land in Sy.No.107 of Marripalem Village, admeasuring Ac.24.80 cents, was divided into two sub-divisions i.e. Sy.No.107/1 and 107/2, that the land in Sy.No.107/1, admeasuring Ac.23.03 cents, was handed over to Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA), way back on 24.10.1982, as per the orders of the District Collector, Visakhapatnam, and the land in Sy.No.107/2, admeasuring Ac.1.77 cents, was registered in the name of CPW Department, and, therefore, no land is available in Sy.No.107 for allotment of house sites. It is also stated that the petitioners never approached the respondent authorities seeking allotment of house sites in Sy.No.107 and that the petitioners are not residing in the said land. It is further stated that the purported representation dated 30.07.2008 has not been received by any of the respondents. In the facts and circumstances of the case and in view of the counter averments, the respondents are directed to treat the very affidavit filed in support of this writ petition as the representation submitted by the petitioners, for allotment of house sites either in Sy.No.107 or in any other survey number of Marripalem Village, and consider the same and pass appropriate orders as per law, within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, and communicate the same to the petitioners. With the above directions, the writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. ____________________ JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU 13th November, 2009. IBL