IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD TUESDAY, THE NINETH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.22109 OF 2011 Between: Sri Mummaneni Venkata Sivaiah and others ..... PETITIONERS AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh and others ....RESPONDENTS The Court made the following: THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.22109 OF 2011 ORDER: Heard Sri A. Hanumantha Reddy, Learned Counsel for the petitioners, and Learned Government Pleader for Revenue (Assignment). At their request the Writ Petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. An extent of Ac.0-94 cents of land in Survey No.49 of Enumalapalli Village, Puttaparthi Mandal of Anantapur District, is said to be in the possession of the petitioners’ grandfather. The Government is said to have assigned the said extent of land to the petitioners’ grandfather by proceedings dated 20.06.1990. Out of this extent of Ac.0-94 cents, an extent of Ac.0-10 cents was given for the purpose of establishing a school; an extent of Ac.0-07 cents for a temple; and an extent of Ac.0-06 cents for road widening, leaving Ac.0-61 cents under the personal cultivation of the petitioners. It is the petitioners’ case that the land in question was barren, uneven and uncultivable; their grandfather had dug a well spending huge amounts; he had raised coconut trees and tamarind trees thereon, and had secured the land in question with a stone masonry compound wall; their grandfather had submitted a representation to the respondents requesting that the land in question be alienated in his favour on payment of market value; the District Collector, vide his letter dated 10.06.1998, had sought sanction of the Government for allotment of the land in question in favour of the petitioners’ grandfather on payment of market value; while matters stood thus, some persons inimical to them were making efforts to thwart the alienation in their favour, and had sought that the land in question be assigned to somebody else; and, apprehending that they would be dispossessed from the lands in question, the petitioners had invoked the jurisdiction of this Court. As the request for alienation of land on payment of market value is said to be pending before the first respondent, it is but appropriate that the first respondent considers the said representation, and passes an order thereupon, in accordance with law within a period of three weeks from today. The first respondent may require the petitioners to submit all such documents as may be necessary to establish that the land in question was assigned in favour of the petitioners’ grandfather; it continues to remain in their possession as on date; and they are entitled in law for allotment of the said land on payment of market value. Till orders are passed, within the aforesaid period of three weeks, the petitioners shall not be dispossessed from the land in question. It is made clear that this order shall not preclude the first respondent from taking action in accordance with law to have the petitioners evicted from the land in question, in case the request for allotment is found not acceptable. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. _____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J August 09, 2011 MD THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.22109 OF 2011 August 09, 2011 MD