THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No : 29670 of 2010 O R D E R: Heard the learned counsel for the writ petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Social Welfare. The Agency Divisional Officer, Rampachodavaram, East Godavari District passed orders in his proceedings in ADO LTRNos.8 and 12 of 2010 against the writ petitioners herein on 30.10.2010 ordering their ejectment from out of the house property of an extent of 900 square yards bearing D.No. 5-93, situate at Rampachodavaram Village of East Godavari District. It is not in dispute that against this order of the Agency Divisional Officer, an appeal is provided to the Additional Agent to the Government, Rampachodavaram, East Godavari District under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulation Act, 1959. The writ petitioner has asserted that such an appeal had been preferred on 10.11.2010 and along with the appeal, an interlocutory application was also moved seeking stay of the operation of the orders of the Agency Divisional Officer, dated 30.10.2010, but the 1st respondent did not choose to pass orders either in the stay petition or in the main appeal. Therefore, the present Writ Petition has been instituted. Once an appeal is preferred to the 1st respondent, it is only expected that it will be attended to at the earliest convenient time. If the appeal itself cannot be decided, the interlocutory application moved by the parties seeking urgent interim orders could be attended to in the meantime. In these set of circumstances, I consider it appropriate to direct the 1st respondent to entertain, hear and decide the appeal preferred against the orders of the Agency Divisional Officer dated 30.10.2010 within six months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Till such time, the status quo existing as of now with regard to possession be maintained. It is, however, open to the 1st respondent to independently consider the interlocutory application moved by the writ petitioner herein and decide the same even before it decides the appeal preferred to it. With this, the Writ Petition stands disposed of, but however, without costs. ------------------------------------- NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J 29th November 2010 ksld ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{MSN}