HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.1139 of 2011 DATE:29-01-2011 BETWEEN Basavathula Govindamamba …Petitioner AND The Government of A.P., Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad & others …Respondents THIS COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.1139 of 2011 ORDER: Petitioner’s revision under Section 4-B of the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977, against the order passed by the Revenue Divisional Officer, Peddapally, Karimnagar dated 7.11.2008 was dismissed by the Collector (Assignment), Karimnagar by order dated 19.5.2010. Pending disposal of the revision, the petitioner’s possession over the subject land was protected by the order passed by this Court in W.P.No.573 of 2009. Having received the order dated 19.5.2010 passed by the Collector (Assignment) Karimnagar on 15.11.2010, the petitioner filed a further revision (wrongly mentioned as an appeal) before the Government of Andhra Pradesh on 28.12.2010 along with a stay application. The said appeal and stay petition are stated to be pending. As the Government failed to pass orders on the stay application, the petitioner is before this Court challenging the order dated 19.5.2010 passed by the Collector (Assignment), Karimnagar. As the order impugned in this writ petition is already under challenge before the Government of A.P. in the revision, it is not open to the petitioner to simultaneously approach this Court on the same cause of action. The Government of A.P., being seized of the matter in revisional jurisdiction, necessarily has to pass orders expeditiously on the stay application. It cannot indefinitely keep such stay applications pending, thereby causing irreparable injustice to the party. The writ petition is therefore disposed of with a direction to the first respondent to pass suitable orders upon the stay application filed by the petitioner in the revision, after giving due opportunity of hearing to all the parties concerned. However, as the petitioner’s possession over the subject-land admeasuring Ac.4.20 guntas in Sy.No.66 of Mallial Village of Srirampur Mandal, Karimnagar District was protected pending the revision before the Collector by virtue of the orders passed by this Court in W.P.No.573 of 2009, the respondents are directed not to interfere with the possession of the petitioner over the subject- land pursuant to the order dated 19.5.2010 passed by the Collector (Assignment) Karimnagar pending disposal of the stay application in the revision filed by the petitioner before the Government of A.P. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________ SANJAY KUMAR. J January 29, 2011 Note: Issue C.C. by 31.01.2011 (B/o) Tsr