THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.29242 of 2009 Date : 2-12-2010 Between : S.Linga Reddy and another .. Petitioners and The Collector, Ranga Reddy District and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioners : Sri Srinivas Polavarapu Counsel for respondents 1 to 6 : Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue Counsel for respondent No.7 : Sri S.Malla Rao The Court made the following : ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the action of respondents in seeking to carry out survey and demarcation work of Sy.Nos.511 and 512 of Gowdevelli village, Medchal Mandal, Ranga Reddy District in pursuance of notice Rc.No.M/392/75, dated 14-12-2009 of respondent No.5 without conducting the survey work for the entire village in accordance with the provisions of A.P. Survey and Boundaries Act, 1923 as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioners are the owners of land in Sy.No.512. The impleaded respondent i.e., respondent No.7, approached the official respondents for survey and demarcation of Sy.No.511. In response to the said application of respondent No.7, respondent No.4 issued the impugned notice dated 14-12-2009 whereby he has informed all the parties concerned including the petitioners that survey of land comprised in Sy.Nos.511 and 512 will be conducted on 18-12-2009 at 11.30 a.m. The petitioners submitted their reply dated 18-12-2009 wherein while stating that they have no objection for such survey, they have however stipulated a condition that the survey should be done with reference to tippon, village plan and traverse data. Apprehending that respondent No.4 will go ahead with survey of S.No.511 as well as S.No.512, the petitioners filed the present Writ Petition. Though a larger relief was claimed in the Writ Petition, namely, that unless survey of the entire village is undertaken the respondents shall not conduct survey only in respect of a few survey numbers, at the hearing Sri Srinivas Polavarapu, learned counsel for the petitioners however confined his submissions to the aspect of the official respondents seeking to conduct survey of S.No.512. The learned counsel submitted that while respondent No.7 has sought for survey of S.No.511, there is neither necessity nor justification for the official respondents to conduct survey of S.No.512. Though the impugned notice referred to S.No.512 also, in the counter affidavit filed by respondent No.3 it is categorically averred that the object of issuing the impugned notice is only to locate the excess surplus land of Ac.2-36 cents (obviously reference to ‘cents’ is a mistake for ‘guntas’) in Sy.No.511/2 only and that S.No.512 is not at all the subject matter of the survey process. It is further clarified that notices to the owners of lands in S.No.512, namely, M/s.Mega Engineering and Infrastructure Limited and petitioner No.1, were issued as S.No.512 is located adjacent to S.No.511/2. These averments in the counter affidavit have allayed the apprehension of the petitioners created by the impugned notice that the official respondents have undertaken the process of surveying S.No.512 also along with S.No.511. Therefore, in the light of the stand taken by respondent No.3 in the counter affidavit as noted above, the Writ Petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, WPMP No.37881/2009 and WVMP No.4478/2010 are is disposed of as infructuous. __________________________ C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY.,J Date: 2-12-2010 AM