IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No: 10905 of 2008 Between: Krishna Yadav s/o. Late A.Jangaiah Yadav, R/o. H.No. 9-1-34/C/1, Bapu Nagar, Langer House, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Hyderbaad Division, Office of Collectorate at Nampally, Hyderbaad. 2 Mandal Revenue Officer, Golconda Mandal at Vijaya Colony, Hyderabad .....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 of Certiorari or any other appropriate Writ order or direction calling for the records pertaining to appeal No. B/4892/2007 dt. -04-2008 on the file of 1st respondent herein and quash the same as illegal, arbitrary & un-constitutional, and further declare the these orders have been passed without any jurisdiction vested in the 1st respondent herein being violative of Article 300-A of the Constitution of India. Counsel for the Petitioner: SMT.PUSHPINDER KAUR Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following: ORDER: The petitioner was issued a notice under Section 6 of the A.P. Land Encroachment Act, 1905 (for short ‘the Act’), stating that he has encroached 260 square meters of land in T.S.No.11, Block-‘M’ of Langer House, which is said to be part of graveyard. After considering the explanation offered by the petitioner, the Mandal Revenue Officer, the second respondent herein, passed an order, dated 04.07.2005, directing eviction of the petitioner. Aggrieved thereby, the petitioner filed an appeal under Section 10 of the Act before the Revenue Divisional Officer, the first respondent herein. The appeal was also rejected. Hence this Writ Petition. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue. Though several contentions touching on the merits of the matter are urged, this Court is not inclined to deal with the same, in view of the fact that the petitioner had an effective alternative remedy by way of revision before the Government under Section 12-A of the Act. Hence, the writ petition is dismissed, leaving it open to the petitioner to avail the remedy of revision. Status quo obtaining as on today shall be maintained for a period of two (2) weeks to enable the petitioner to avail the remedy of revision. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt:22.05.2008. Note: Issue cc in three days. (B/o) GJ/KDL ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{KSRANI}