THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No :1707 of 2008 DATED:01-02-2008 BETWEEN: Amineni Suresh Naidu. ..... PETITIONER AND The Revenue Divisional Officer, Madanapalle, Chittoor District & 2 others. .....RESPONDENTS ORDER: Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as the learned Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for the respondents. 2. Petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus directing the 1st respondent to dispose of the appeal i.e., Case No.Roc.B1/1357/2007 filed by the petitioner against the order of the 2nd respondent made in Roc.No.A/183/2007, dated 30-04-2007 expeditiously. 3. It is the case of the petitioner that as against the resumption order passed by the 2nd respondent-Tahsildar Madanapalle, Chittoor District in Roc.No.A/183/2007, dated 30-04-2007, petitioner filed an appeal B1/1357/2007 on 15-05-2007 before the 1st respondent-Revenue Divisional Officer, Madanapalle. 4. A perusal of the resumption order goes to show that the land of an extent of Ac.0.70 cents in Sy.No.483-4 of Ponnetipalem Revenue village, Madanapalle mandal, Chittoor was assigned in favour of the 3rd respondent-Banavath Munuwamy Naik, who is a Scheduled Tribe. Subsequently, the said Munuwamy sold away the said land to the petitioner and his father, and thereafter requested for restoration of the said land. The said land has been resumed on the ground that the father of the petitioner, an Ex-serviceman, has got another DKT land of an extent of Ac.3.80 cents in Ponnutipalem village and therefore there was a clear violation of sale of the land by the original assignee. 5. I am not inclined to express any opinion with regard to the contentions of the petitioner that the said land was reassigned in favour of the petitioner and whether there was any violation of sub- Sections 1 to 3 of Section 3 of the A.P.Assigned Lands ( Prohibition of Transfers) Act,1977 ( for brevity ‘the Act’), but however as an appeal is said to have been filed and pending in Roc.No.B3/1357/2007, 1st respondent is directed to consider and dispose of the said appeal as expeditiously as possible after hearing both the parties, and pending disposal of the appeal, staus quo, obtaining as on today, with regard to possession shall be maintained. 6. Accordingly, Writ Petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________ V.ESWARAIAH,J 01st February, 2008. Note: Furnish C.C. of the order by Monday. B/o Tsy