THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.29632 of 2010 Date: 29.11.2010 Between: Smt.Laiq Unnisa and others ..... PETITIONERS AND The Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. By its Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad and others .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners: Sri M.ABID ALI Counsel for the Respondent Nos.1 to 4: AGP FOR REVENUE Counsel for the Respondent No.5: N.A. The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to set aside Memo No.B/2648/2005, dated 24.06.2006. This case has a chequered history. The petitioners claim to be owners of small extents of plots in Survey No.124/ru of Gopannapally Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. When the petitioners’ applications for grant of No Objection Certificate for the purpose of approval of building permissions for construction of houses were turned down, they have filed W.P.No.8850 of 2006. On the strength of an interim order passed in the said writ petition, the petitioners approached respondent Nos.1 to 4 for No Objection Certificate. However, the petitioners’ requests were turned down on the ground that the land belongs to Government. The petitioners have therefore applied for regularization of their possession in terms of G.O.Ms.No.166 dated 16.02.2008. As those applications were not disposed of, the petitioners have filed W.P.No.1705 of 2008, which was disposed of by this Court with a direction to consider and dispose of the said applications. Complaining that the said order was not complied with, the petitioners have filed C.C.No.1727 of 2009. On the basis of certain averments made by the respondents in the said counter-affidavit, the petitioners have pleaded that the plots do not belong to the Government. This Court, however, while observing that the issue relating to the ownership cannot be decided in a contempt case, closed the contempt case with liberty to the petitioners to workout their remedies before competent forum. Purporting to avail the remedy in terms of the observations of this Court in the contempt case, the petitioners filed the present writ petition for setting aside the Memo dated 24.06.2006. The grievance of the petitioners is that while not issuing No Objection Certificate to them, the revenue authorities have issued No Objection Certificate to respondent No.5. In my opinion, the issues raised by the petitioners relate to the right over immovable properties. As many as three parties are involved in this dispute, namely; petitioners, Government and respondent No.5. This Court exercising its extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India would seldom entertain the writ petitions of this nature filed disputing questions of title. As observed by this Court in the Contempt Case, the petitioners will have to workout their remedies before appropriate forum. In the opinion of this Court, it is the competent civil court constituted for redressing the common law grievances of the affected parties, which is the appropriate forum for adjudication of the claims of this nature. In this view of the matter, the writ petition is dismissed with liberty to the petitioners to avail appropriate remedy in the light of the above observations. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition, WPMP No.37753 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 29.11.2010 va