IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:23423 of 2008 Between: Bodepudi Srihari Naidu, S/o. Kotaiah Naidu, R/o. Dagadarthi Village and Mandal, Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The District Collector, nellore, Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Kavali,Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District. 3 Tha Tahsildar, Dagadarthi Village and Mandal, Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.K.MURALIDHAR REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: AGP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in seeking to interfere with the peaceful possession and enjoyment of the petitioner in respect of the land admeasuring Ac.1.80 cents in Survey Nos.323 and 364/7 of Chennur Village, Dagadarthi Mandal, Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District, as illegal and arbitrary. Heard Sri K.Muralidhar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue and perused the record. The petitioner claims to have purchased the land of an extent of Ac.1.80 cents in the above mentioned survey numbers in 1996 and he has been in possession of the said land since then. His grievance is that the Tahsildar, respondent No.3, and the Village Assistants working under him started interfering with the petitioner’s possession by claiming that the land belongs to the Government and they asked the petitioner to vacate the said land. At the hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the land in occupation of the petitioner is a private property and the respondents cannot interfere with the petitioner’s rights over the said property without following due process of law. Inasmuch as the petitioner’s grievance is innocuous, namely, the respondents cannot interfere with his possession without initiating appropriate proceedings, if according to them, the land belongs to the Government, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondents not to interfere with the possession of the petitioner over the said property, without initiating appropriate proceedings under the relevant provisions of law, giving the petitioner an opportunity of hearing by way of a show cause notice and holding necessary enquiry. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP.No.30512 of 2008 ﬁled by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 29th OCTOBER, 2008. Note: issue copy in three (3) days. B/o kvni