THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY Writ Petition No.7295 of 2009 ORDER: The Tahsildar, Ongole, 2nd respondent herein initiated proceedings against the petitioners under the provisions of the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act in relation to different extents of land in different survey numbers of Mamidipalem Village. After issuing notices to the petitioners, the 2nd respondent passed individual orders dated 30.07.2008 directing resumption of the land. Aggrieved thereby, the petitioners preferred an appeal before the 1st respondent together with the application for stay. The grievance of the petitioners is that no orders have been passed in the application for stay so far and it is alleged that the 2nd respondent is trying to dispossess them from the land, in the meanwhile. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Assignment. The petitioners had availed the statutory remedy of appeal before the 1st respondent. If the petitioners are dispossessed even while the appeal is pending, the very purpose of preferring it would be defeated. Therefore, the writ petition is disposed of directing that the orders, dated 30.07.2008, shall remain stayed during the pendency of the appeal preferred by the petitioners against the said orders before the 1st respondent. There shall be no order s to costs. _________ 08.04.2009 JSU THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY Writ Petition No.7295 of 2009 Date: 08.04.2009 JSU