THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.5151 of 2003 27.01.2011 Between: Shaik Masthan and another. ….Petitioners AND The Mandal Revenue Officer, Karlapalem, Guntur District, and another …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.5151 of 2003 ORDER: The two petitioners filed the instant writ petition seeking a writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in demolishing their houses as illegal and arbitrary. They also seek a direction to set aside notice, dated 28.06.2002 issued by the first respondent. The petitioners were assigned small extents of lands admeasuring Acs.0.02 cents in survey No.582 of Karlapalem Village and Mandal, Guntur District, for construction of houses on condition that the lands are inalienable. The petitioners alleged that they constructed houses. It is their case that the first respondent issued notices dated 28.06.2002 directing to vacate the lands alleging that the petitioners encroached the lands. Therefore, they filed the instant writ petition alleging that there is a threat of dispossession. This Court admitted the writ petition on 26.03.3003. In W.P.M.P.No.6797 of 2003, this Court passed interim orders directing the respondents not to dispossess the petitioners from the house sites. Even after lapse of seven years, the respondents have not filed counter affidavit. The petitioners have enclosed the allotment letter dated 26.09.1986, the property tax and receipts to show that they are in possession of the property. Keeping this in view and applying the principle of non-traverse, the writ petition is disposed of observing that if the petitioners are still continuing in the houses constructed in the lands allegedly allotted to them, the respondents shall not dispossess the petitioners or demolish their houses without following due process of law. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. _______________ (V.V.S.RAO, J) 27.01.2011 Pln