IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 7575 of 2002 Between: The Minirities Development Housing Welfare Society, Rep. by its President Abdul Wahed S/o. Shaik Farid, Regd. in the year 1990 under No.124/90, Guntur. R/o. D.No.15-12-239, R.T.C. Colony,Guntur Town, Guntur Dist. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Collector, Guntur, Guntur Dist. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Guntur, Guntur Dist. 3 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Guntur, Guntur Dist. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.B.LINGAYYA CHOWDARY (NOT PRESENT) Counsel for the Respondents: AGP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled for a Writ of Mandamus to direct respondent No.3 to issue house site pattas to the beneﬁciaries identified in his report, dated 28.12.2001. 2. This case has a chequered history. The petitioner Society earlier ﬁled W.P.No.21300 of 2000 for appropriate directions to grant house sites to its members. The said writ petition was disposed of by this Court. A Contempt Case ﬁled alleging non- compliance with the order passed by this Court was dismissed with permission to the petitioner to ﬁle a writ petition. Accordingly, the petitioner ﬁled W.P.No.5910 of 2001, which was dismissed by this Court on 31.03.2001 with an observation that the competent authority shall consider the petitioner’s request for allotment of house sites, if its members are found eligible for such allotment. 3. In the aﬃdavit ﬁled in support of this writ petition, the petitioner claimed that in pursuance of the said direction granted by this Court, respondent No.3 held enquiry and prepared a list of 175 eligible candidates, which was submitted to respondent No.2, along with his report, dated 28.12.2001, and that respondent No.2 ﬁnalised the said list after veriﬁcation and forwarded the same to respondent No.3 for grant of pattas. The grievance of the petitioner is that since then respondent No.3 has not taken any action for issuance of pattas. 4. No counter aﬃdavit is ﬁled controverting the averments contained in the affidavit. 5. If a report was already submitted by respondent No.3 identifying the eligible candidates for grant of house sites, I do not see any justiﬁcation for respondent Nos.2 and 3 in not granting pattas to the eligible persons. 6. The writ petition is, therefore, disposed of with a direction to respondent Nos.2 and 3 to take immediate steps to grant pattas to the eligible persons on the basis of the report, dated 28.12.2001, said to have been submitted by respondent No.3 to respondent No.2, subject to the availability of the land. They shall take appropriate decision in this regard within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. ________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J 14.10.2008 v v