THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.Y.SOMAYAJULU On Tuesday, the twenty fourth day of January, two thousand and six. W.P.No.18551 of 1996 Korada Narsimhulu and others. …….Petitioners. And: Mandal Revenue Officer, Denkada Mandal, Vizianagaram District and others. ……..Respondents. THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.Y.SOMAYAJULU W.P.No.18551 of 1996 O R D E R: The case of the petitioners is that they were assigned Ac.1.70, Ac.1.70 and Ac.1.66 cents respectively in Sy.No.105/2 of Akkivaram village vide proceedings in Rc.No.429/71-A dated 20.5.1971 of the Mandal Revenue Officer, Denkada Mandal (1st respondent) and that they have been in possession thereof from then and that respondents, for reasons not known to them, are trying to dispossess them from the said lands due to political influence or otherwise, and so a direction to the respondents not to dispossess them from the said lands without following due process of law may be granted. Though, writ petition is petition filed in 1996, and though an interim direction not to dispossess the petitioners from the land without taking recourse to due course of law was issued on 4.9.1996 by a learned single judge of this court, no counter affidavit is filed by the respondents till today. In view thereof, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents not to dispossess the petitioners from the aforesaid land without taking recourse to due process of law. No costs. ----------------------------------- JUSTICE C.Y.SOMAYAJULU 24th January 2006. BCS