THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No :1702 of 2008 DATED:01-02-2008 BETWEEN: Tallapaka Suresh. ..... PETITIONER AND The Revenue Divisional Officer, Kadapa Division, Kadapa District & another. .....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 declaring the action of the 1st respondent in not granting stay order in the pending appeal filed by the petitioner against the order in Ref.No.B/386/2007, dated 09-12-2007, on the file of the 2nd respondent, as illegal, and arbitrary. 3. It is the case of the petitioner that the 2nd respondent- Tahsildar Rayachoty mandal, Kadapa District passed resumption orders in Ref.No.B/386/2007, dated 09-12-2007, resuming the lands of an extent of Ac.2.00 in Sy.No.515/2 out of the total extent of Ac.3.34 cents of Rayachoty village on the ground that the said land was assigned in favour of one Garnimitta Bade Saab of Rayachoty village as per DKT No.65 Am of 1344 Fasli, dated 18- 06-1935, and the said land assigned in favour of the landless poor was transferred by various sale deeds subsequently and ultimately in favour of the petitioner, and therefore, alienation of the said land is in contravention of sub-Sections 1 to 3 of Section 3 of the A.P.Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers)l Act, 1977 ( for brevity, ‘the Act’). It is stated that aggrieved by the said order, petitioner filed an appeal on 22-01-2008 before the 1st respondent- Revenue Divisional Officer, Kadapa under Section 4A (1) of the Act, and the same is said to have been pending. 4. Having regard to the facts and circumstances, 1st respondent is directed to consider and dispose of the appeal said to have been filed on 22-01-2008 against the resumption orders of the 2nd respondent-Tahsildar, Rayachoty in Ref.No.B/386/2007, dated 09-12-2007, and pending disposal of the appeal, if any, status quo, obtaining as on today, with regard to possession shall be maintained. 5. 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