THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.21067 of 2011 ORDER: Aggrieved by the notice dated 16.06.2011, issued under Rule 3 of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Rules, 2007 (for short ‘2007 Rules’), the petitioner has invoked the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. The notice, under Rule 3 of the 2007 Rules, was issued on the basis that the petitioner had purchased the land which was originally assigned to Sri N.Gopala Krishna Murthy; and such purchase of assigned lands is in violation of Section 3 of Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (for short ‘Act 9 of 1977’). Sri P.Sri Raghuram, Learned Counsel for the petitioner, would assert that the original assignee was an ex-serviceman; the conditions of assignment, as prescribed in G.O.Ms.No.1117 dated 11.11.1973, permitted an ex-serviceman, in whose favour the land was assigned, to alienate the land after ten years; the petitioner’s vendor had purchased the land from the original assignee after the said period of ten years; and, as such, the land purchased by the petitioner is not in violation of Section 3 of Act 9 of 1977. It is inappropriate for this Court, at this stage, to examine these contentions in as much as the proceedings under challenge, in this Writ Petition, is merely a notice under Rule 3 of 2007 Rules read with Form-I thereof whereunder the petitioner had been given an opportunity to submit his objections within 15 days. Sri P.Sri Raghuram, Learned Counsel for the petitioner, would submit that the petitioner has, in fact, submitted his objections on 04.07.2011. His apprehension is that, without the objections even being considered, he may be evicted from the land in question. Since A.P. Act 9 of 1977 also provides for an appeal against the order passed by the Tahsildar, I consider it appropriate to direct the respondents not to take coercive steps to dispossess the petitioner from the land in question till orders are passed pursuant to the notice in Form-I, and the said orders are communicated to him. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J Date:25.08.2011 usd