THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 17202 OF 2011 O R D E R: This Writ Petition has been instituted by one Smt. Vadde Yellamma, W/o late Yellappa essentially complaining that the respondents have not dealt with her representation dated 16.07.2007 so far. However, certain facts, which have been brought on record, make me adopt a different approach than merely directing the respondents to deal with the representation dated 16.07.2007 of the writ petitioner. It is stated that the husband of the writ petitioner has been assigned land of an extent of Ac.2.00 situate in Survey No. 58/47 in Mannapur Village of Zaheerabad Mandal, Medak District, somewhere in the year 1977. After the death of her husband, the writ petitioner seems to have moved to Bombay to join her children for a while and in the meantime, assuming that Sri Yellappa, the original assignee has sold away the land, the respondents passed orders cancelling the assignment made in his favour and resuming the possession of the land. An endorsement has been issued on 19.11.2007 indicating that assignment made originally in favour of Sri Yellappa has been cancelled and land was also resumed. One Sri D. Srinivas Reddy, Tahsildar, Zaheerabad Mandal filed a counter-affidavit in the matter. In paragraph 3 at page 2 of the said counter-affidavit, it is stated that the legal heirs of Sri Yellappa, namely Sri Gurappa and Sri Buddappa sold away the land to Sri Bheem Reddy, S/o Sri Veera Reddy, through a registered sale deed bearing No. 933 of 1976, dated 25.11.1976. It is further pointed out that the assignment made in favour of Sri Yellappa was cancelled vide proceedings dated 10.03.2005 of the Mandal Revenue Officer. Obviously, the deponent of the counter-affidavit has not applied his mind to the true and relevant facts. If Sri Yellappa has been assigned land in 1977, he or his legal heirs could not have sold it earlier in point of time than 1977. Two things will emerge. Either the assignment made in favour of Sri Yellappa could be prior to 25.11.1976 or even without securing an assignment in his favour, Sri Yellappa could have been possibly in possession of this land some time prior to 1976. Be that as it may, when the assignment is allegedly made in 1977, neither Sri Yellappa nor his legal representatives could have sold it in 1976 and thus, could not have validly conveyed any title over the said land in favour of any person. It is therefore, appropriate to direct the present Tahsildar, Zaheerabad, who incidentally appears in the Court in the matter today, to conduct an enquiry as to whether the writ petitioner Smt. Vadde Yellamma is a landless poor person or not and as to whether she is residing in the said village or not and if so, restore possession to her of Ac.2.00 of land which was originally assigned in favour of her husband Sri Yellappa. It is certainly open to the revenue establishment to prevent any alienations of the said land either by Smt. Yellamma, the petitioner herein or her representatives, in view of Section 3 of the A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977. With this, the Writ Petition stands allowed. No costs. ---------------------------------- (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) 26th August 2011 ksld