IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY Contempt Case No.109 of 2011 Between: Smt.Vatti Sundari ..... Petitioner AND 1.Smt.Ranjeev Acharya, Principal Secretary to Government, Industries & Commerce (M-11) Department, Government of AP, secretariat Buildings, Saifabad Hyderabad, and 4 others. .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri MVJK.Kumar Counsel for Respondent No.4: AGP for Revenue Counsel for respondent Nos.1 to 3 & 5: --- The Court made the following: Order: This Contempt Case is filed alleging willful disobedience of Order, dated 09-03-2010, passed by this Court in W.P.No.23746 of 2009. The petitioner filed the above-noted Writ Petition for a Mandamus to declare the inaction of the respondents, in handing over and delivering possession of the land admeasuring Acs.155-00 in Survey No.479/18 of Konanki Village of Piduguralla Mandal, Guntur District, which was leased to the petitioner, as illegal and arbitrary. This Court disposed of the said Writ Petition by Order, dated 09-03-2010, wherein it was found that addressing the two letters by the Tahsildar to the Police to give aid to the petitioner, without initiating steps to evict the encroachers by following due process of law, was improper. This Court also directed respondent No.4 to take effective steps to evict the encroachers by following due process of law before taking Police aid. Alleging that the respondents have not complied with the said Order, the present Contempt Case is filed. Respondent No.4 filed a counter-affidavit wherein it is inter alia stated that in pursuance of the said Order of this Court, he has issued proceedings, RC.No.2810/2009/E4, dated 13-05-2010, authorizing the Tahsildar, Piduguralla, to evict the encroachers from the leased mining area under Section 7-A of the A.P.Land Encroachment Act, 1905 (for short ‘the Act’), and that after evicting the encroachers, the Tahsildar, Piduguralla, handed over the possession thereof to his authorized agent Sri M.S.Ram Mohan Rao on 22-07-2010. Respondent No.4 also filed a Certificate, which contains the signatures of the alleged encroachers and showing that in deference to the Order of this Court, they have vacated the land in their occupation on 22-07-2010 on their own volition. In my opinion, the petitioner failed to make out a case of willful violation of the Order of this Court by any of the respondents. The purport of the Order passed by this Court was that respondent No.4 shall take steps for eviction of the encroachers by following due process of law before taking police aid. From the stand taken by respondent No.4, it is evident that in compliance with the above order of this Court, he has ensured that necessary steps are taken under the Act for eviction of the encroachers. Therefore, I do not find any reason to proceed against the respondents in contempt. The Contempt Case is, accordingly, dismissed and the contemnors are discharged from the contempt proceedings. ______________________ (C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy, J) 24th June, 2011 lur