IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 3465 of 2008 Between: Sri Salasar Balaji Gin & Pre. FActory, Rep. by its Partner Kanhaiyalal Makharia S/o. Gajadhar S.No.55/A, Rampur Road, Adilabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Principal Secretary to Government, Revenue (Assignment) Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Principal Secretary to Government, Industries & Commerce Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 3 The District Collector, Adilabad District, Adilabad. 4 The Joint Collector, Adilabad District, Adilabad. 5 The District Manager, District Industries Center, Adilabad District, Adilabad. 6 The Tahsildar, Adilabad Mandal, Adilabad. .....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 in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the 3 to 5 respondents in not allotting the land admeasuring Ac.3-00 of land in S.No.54 KK of Bhuktapur village, Adilabad at the market value fixed by the District Registrar, Adilabad at Rs.3,24,500/- per Acre in terms of G.O.Ms.No.712 Revenue (Asn.I) Department dated 20.6.2003 as arbitrary, illegal and violative of ARticle 14 of the Constitution of India and further direct the respondents to allot the land admeasuring Ac.3-00 of land in S.No.54 KK of Bhuktapur Village, Adilabad at the market value fixed by the District Registrar, Adilabad at Rs.3,24,500/- per Acre in terms of G.O.Ms.No.712 REvenue (Asn.I) Department dated 20.6.2003 forthwith and pass such other orders as may be just and proper. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.G.PRAMOD KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA Writ Petition No. 3465 of 2008 Order: The petitioner is a Ginning and Pressing Factory. As the petitioner intended to expand its business, it made representation dated 10.10.2006 and 16.10.2006 requesting respondent Nos. 3 to 5 to alienate the adjacent land in an extent of Ac.3.00 in Sy. No. 54 of Bhuktapur village, Adilabad, in terms of G.O. Ms. No. 712, dated 20.06.2003, as per the prevailing market value. The petitioner states that respondent No.4, namely the Joint Collector, Adilabad, vide his proceedings dated 07.04.2007, had directed respondent No.6, namely the Tahsildar, Adilabad Mandal, to send proposals for alienation. In pursuance thereof, respondent No.6 vide proceedings dated 11.05.2007 requested the Adilabad Municipality to send resolution for processing the alienation proposals. Accordingly, the Adilabad Municipality, on 31.05.2007 has passed resolution for alienation, which was communicated to respondent No. 6 on 02.06.2007. The petitioner states that thereafter, though he made representation dated 03.04.2007, followed by two other representations dated 21.08.2007 and 14.01.2008 requesting respondent Nos. 3 to 5 to alienate the land in his favour, no action thereon had been taken. Despite granting time, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue for the respondents, has not obtained any instructions. He however, agreed for disposal of the writ petition with the following directions, to which the learned counsel for the respondent expressed no objection: Respondent Nos. 3 to 5 are directed to consider and dispose of the representations dated 03.04.2007, 21.08.2007 and 14.01.2008 made by the petitioner for alienation of the land in question in their favour, in accordance with law, and pass appropriate orders thereon, within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. ___________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Date: 13.03.2008 Ksr/Nsr ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{KURR}