HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No.21053 of 2011 Date: October 13, 2011 Between: Gangavarapu Anjaneyulu … Petitioner And 1. The District Collector, Guntur, Guntur District and two others. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No.21053 of 2011 O R D E R: This writ petition has been filed under misapprehension that minor mineral sand is quarried illegally by certain individuals in the land situated in Survey No.130/A of Nemalipuri village, Rajupalem Mandal, Guntur District and that the Tahsildar, Rajupalem Mandal as well as the Assistant Director for Mines and Geology are not taking any action in this regard. 2. Learned Government Pleader for Revenue (Andhra area) has brought to my notice the contents of the counter-affidavit filed by the Tahsildar, Rajupalem Mandal. In paragraph 4 of the said counter- affidavit it is pointed out that the total extent of land available in Survey No.130/A of Nemalipuri village is only Ac.48.49 cents, but not Ac.63.00 as alleged by the petitioner. Further, there is a small hillock called as ‘Ralla Gutta’ locally in the said land. An extent of Ac.12.45 cents lying in the said survey number, which was found fit for cultivation, was in fact assigned to the landless poor persons in the year 1995 and ever since the assignees are in possession of the said land. The remaining Ac.36.04 cents of land is lying vacant and is free from encroachments and there is no deposit of minor mineral sand in the land. 3. The Tahsildar, Rajupalem Mandal, emphatically denied that there was any illegal sand mining undertaken in the said land. In the absence of any concrete material to establish that there was illegal sand quarrying going on in the land described supra, this writ petition cannot be entertained or allowed. 4. Therefore, the writ petition is dismissed, but however without costs. _______________________________ NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J Date: October 13, 2011. BSB