IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 18268 of 2008 Between: 1 B.Danam S/o.B.Nagaiah R/o.104, Dwaraka Apts., Thakur Mansion Lane, Somajiguda, Hyderabad – 500 082. 2 B.Rajeshwari S/o.B V Rangaiah C/o.R V Subbaiah, Retd. Veterinary Assistant, Dammapet Village, Dammapet Mandal, Khammam District. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The District Collector (S&LR) Khammam District, A.P. 2 Revenue Divisional Officer, Palvancha, Khammam District, A.P. 3 The Tahsildar, Dammapet Mandal Khammam District, A.P. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a Writ, order or direction one more particularly in the nature of a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not conducting the survey for demarcating the boundaries in respect of the petitioners' land admeasuring an extent of Ac 30-00 Gts in Sy.No. 273/1 Dammapet Village and Mandal, Khammam District as being illegal arbitrary, unconstitutional and contrary to the provisions of A.P. Survey and Boundaries Act 1923 and consequently direct the respondents to survey and demarcate the lands of the petitioners' and pass such further order or other orders. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.S.NIRANJAN REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled by the petitioners seeking a direction to the respondents to survey and demarcate their land admeasuring an extent of Ac.30.00 in Sy.No.273/1 Dammapet Village and Mandal, Khammam District. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned Government Pleader for Revenue and at their request the writ petition is taken up for ﬁnal disposal at the admission stage itself. It is the case of the petitioners that the father of petitioner No.1 and the 2nd petitioner purchased an extent of Ac.20.00 and Ac.10.00 respectively situated in Sy.No.273/1 of Dammapet Village and Mandal, Khamma District under registered sale deeds in the year 1987 from the original assignees, who were assigned the said lands as political sufferers. Since the date of purchase, the father of the 1st petitioner and later the petitioner and the 2nd petitioner were in continuous possession and enjoyment of the said lands and they were also issued with pattadar pass books and title deeds in respect of the said land. While so, in the year 2004, there was an attempt to encroach the said lands and, therefore, they made a report to the Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer and the Police Department and successfully resisted the attempts of encroachment. However, to protect their lands from encroachments, they wanted to fence the same and for that purpose they made an application to the authorities and also paid necessary fees on 29.12.2004. The grievance of the petitioners is that so far no action has been initiated on their application even they paid the prescribed fee on 29.12.2004 itself. This Court while issuing Notice before admission on 22.8.2008, directed the learned Government Pleader to obtain necessary instructions. Today, he reported that the application of the petitioners is still pending consideration before the authorities. In the circumstances, without going into the merits of the matter, the respondents are directed to consider the application of the petitioners and conduct necessary survey and demarcate their land as sought for by them in their application dated 29.12.2004 as expeditiously as possible. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. N.V.RAMANA,J DT.18.9.2008 msv ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1 The District Collector (S&LR) Khammam District, A.P. 2 Revenue Divisional Officer, Palvancha, Khammam District, A.P. 3 The Tahsildar, Dammapet Mandal Khammam District, A.P. 4 2CCs to GP for Revenue, High Court of A.P. 5 2CD copies