THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.24686 OF 2011 ORDER: The relief sought for in this Writ Petition is to declare the action of the respondents, in seeking to dispossess the petitioners from the lands in question, as arbitrary and illegal. It is the petitioners’ case that the lands were assigned to their parents in the year 1977, and they are carrying on agricultural operations thereupon ever since. It is their case that the respondents, without putting them on notice and without giving them an opportunity of being heard, are seeking to dispossess them from the lands in question. Learned Government Pleader for Revenue (Assignment), on instructions, submits that while the lands were indeed assigned to the petitioners’ predecessors, the said lands were never cultivated resulting in violation of the conditions of assignment. Learned Government Pleader would submit that the respondents have not interfered with the petitioners possession; and any action which may be taken later, for cancellation of the assignment, and for resumption of the lands, would only be in accordance with law. Recording the said submission of the Learned Government Pleader, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the respondents not to interfere with the petitioners possession over the lands in question, except after complying with Rule 3 and Form – I of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Rules, 2007; passing orders of cancellation of the assignment and resumption of the lands thereafter in accordance with law. However, in the circumstances, without costs. _____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J September 07, 2011 MD THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.24686 OF 2011 September 07, 2011 MD