HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 4718 OF 2011. DATED 8TH MARCH, 2011 BETWEEN Smt. Bodimani Sandhya …Petitioner and The District Collector, Chittoor Chittoor District and ors ….Respondents. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 4718 OF 2011. ORDER: The petitioner claims to be the purchaser of the land in an extent of Ac.3.10 cents comprised in Sy.No. 825/2B situated in Mattilivaripalle village, Kurabalakota Mandal, Chittoor District having purchased under the registered document Nos. 2285, 2286 and 2287 of 2010, dated 26.03.2010. The petitioner made an application to the Revenue Divisional Officer, Madanaplle on 15.06.2010 for issuance of a certificate for conversion of the subject agricultural land to be used for non-agricultural purpose. The third respondent vide endorsement dated 23.10.2010 required the petitioner to obtain No Objection Certificate from the District Collector for conversion of the subject agricultural land to be used as non-agricultural land. The learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that as per Section 5 of the A.P. Agricultural Land (Conversion for non-agricultural purpose) Act 2006, the competent authority to issue such conversion certificate is the Revenue Divisional Officer, and, not the District Collector and hence there is no necessity to obtain No Objection Certificate from the District Collector. Inasmuch as the Revenue Divisional Officer is the competent authority as per Section 5 of the A.P. Agricultural Land (Conversion for non-agricultural Purpose) Act 2006 to issue conversion certificate for conversion of the subject agricultural land into non-agricultural purpose, the endorsement dated 23.10.2010 is liable to be set aside and accordingly the same is set aside. However, as the petitioner has already made an application for issuance of conversion certificate, the second respondent is directed to consider and dispose of the same, in accordance with law, expeditiously. Subject to the above, the Writ Petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. ------------------------------------ -- JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA Dated 0803.2011. Msnro