IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION NO : 28349 of 2008 Between: 1 K.P.Haseena Begum, W/o. S.Nazeer Ahmed, R/o. 20/348, D.C. Road, Kadapa 2 P.Suguna, W/o. K.Chandra Babu, R/o. 345-2, Vivenkananda Nagar, Road No.2(Near Ohm Shanthi) Kadapa ..... PETITIONER(S) AND 1 The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep by The District Collector, Kadapa 2 The Revenue Divisional Office, Kadapa 3 The Mandal Revenue Officer, kadapa 4 Dr.C.hanumantha Rao, Sweekar-Upakar Academy of Rehabilitation Sciences, Near Jubilee Bus Station, Secunderabad. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue a Writ Order or Direction particularly Writ of Mandamus directing the resopndetns either to restore possession of the lands or to initiate land acquisition proceeidngs for the lands in S.No.202/4 an extent of Ac.2.00 cents and S.No.202/2 an extent of Ac.3.00 cents of dry land in Putlampalli Vilalge, Kadapa Mandal, Which are resumed for public purpose by declaring the common resumption order passed by the M.R.O. Kadapa in his proceedings Ref.No.B/1085 /2004 dated 15-11-2004 without communicating the same and without following due process of law as illegal, arbitrary and violative of principles of natural justice and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.M.N.NARASIMHA REDDY Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR Writ Petition No. 28349 of 2008 Order: The petitioners are aggrieved by the order passed by the Mandal Revenue Officer in proceedings No.B/1085/2004, dated 15.11.2004, whereunder the agricultural lands said to have been assigned to the petitioners were resumed by the Government for public purpose. The same order is passed with regard to various assignees numbering about 130 and the petitioners are also among the said 130 affected persons. Learned counsel for the petitioners has brought to my notice that similar writ petitions, which were entertained by this Court in W.P. Nos.22890, 24741 and 25399 of 2008, were disposed of by a common order of this Court dated 24.11.2008. The operative portion of which reads as follows: “In view of settled legal position, this Court is not inclined to accept these writ petitions. Petitioners are given liberty to prefer appeal before RDO within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Liberty is also given to petitioners to make appropriate applications to District Collector, Kadapa, claiming compensation in accordance with principles laid down in LAO-cum-RDO, Chevella Division, Domalaguda, Hyd v. Mekala Pandu (2004(2) ALD 451 (DB). As and when such applications are made, District Collector shall conduct enquiry and pass necessary orders within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of such applications. The writ petitions are accordingly disposed of.” Since the facts of the present writ petition are identical and the impugned order, which is challenged, is the same as in the above batch of cases, there shall be a similar direction in this writ petition also. With the aforesaid direction, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. _________________________ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J. Date: 29.12.2008 Nsr