THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY Writ Petition No.8585 of 2009 ORDER: The father of the petitioner, by name, Appala Naidu, filed application under Section 12 of A.P (Andhra Area) Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryorwari) Act, 1948 (for short ‘the Act’), in respect of Ac.2.25 cents of land in Old Sy.Nos.187, 189 and 205 of Lolug Village, Ponduru Mandal, Srikakulam District, before the Additional Assistant Estate Officer, Vizianagaram. The application was rejected on 15-03-1957. Thereafter the petitioner filed an application under Section 11(a) of the Act on 12-10-1988 before the Joint Collector-cum-Settlement Officer, the 1st respondent. The Mandal Revenue Officer resisted the application on several grounds, including the one of res judicata. Based upon the order dated 15-03- 1957, passed by the Additional Assistant Estate Officer, the 1st respondent disallowed the application, through order dated 27-11- 2002. The petitioner filed a revision under Section 5(1) of the Act before the Director of Survey Settlements, the 2nd respondent. The revision was dismissed on 28-06-2003. Thereupon, the petitioner availed the remedy of further revision to the 3rd respondent. That was also dismissed on 29-12-2008. Hence, this writ petition. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, and learned Government Pleader for Revenue. The claim made by the father of the petitioner in respect of the land referred to above, was rejected, way back in the year 1957. No remedies were availed against it. It was only in the year 1988, that is after three decades, that the petitioner came forward with similar application. Obviously, because of the earlier determination, this application was dismissed, and the same was affirmed in revision and further revision. The delay is so enormous; that hardly the matter needs any close scrutiny. Be that as it may, the petitioner states that, in respect of that very land, he has been granted D-Form Patta. Therefore, it cannot be said that the petitioner has any genuine grievance for the rejection of application, under the provisions of the Act. The petitioner can certainly enjoy the land, as long as the D-Form patta issued in his favour, in the year 1994, subsists. Hence, the writ petition is dismissed, however, directing that the petitioner shall not be dispossessed from the land, as regard of which, he was granted D-Form patta, in the year 1994, as long as it is in force. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J. Dt.24-04-2009. KO