IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.25976 of 2000 Between: Nunduri Kondal Rao & another. … Petitioners AND The District Collector, East Godavari District, Kakinada, & another. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners : Sri Badana Bhaskara Rao Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Revenue This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.25976 of 2000 ORDER:- This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in seeking to dispossess the petitioners from land admeasuring Ac.1.21 cents in Sy.No.57/2 of Devipatnam Village and Mandal, East Godavari District, as illegal and arbitrary. The father of the petitioners purchased the abovementioned land under registered document No.354/64 dated 13.07.1964. The Settlement Oﬃcer, Rajahmundry, granted a settlement patta under Section 7(1) read with Section 9 of Regulation 2 of 1970 in case No.144 dated 25.02.1976 in favour of their father. The grievance of the petitioners is that respondent No.2 came to their land on 23.12.2000 and threatened them to vacate the same by saying that the said land is situated in agency area and that the same is proposed to be assigned to the tribals. Feeling aggrieved by this action of respondent No.2, the petitioners filed the present writ petition. No counter affidavit is filed by the respondents. I have perused a copy of order dated 25.02.1976 in Case No.144 passed by the Settlement Oﬃcer, Rajahmundry by which the claim of the father of the petitioners for grant of ryotwari patta was allowed. So long as this patta subsists, the respondents are not entitled to interfere with the petitioners’ possession and enjoyment of the abovementioned land. The respondents are therefore directed not to interfere with the petitioners’ right to enjoy the said land. The writ petition is accordingly allowed. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition in the manner indicated above, WPMP.No.33106 of 2000 ﬁled by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 05.09.2008 ES