IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.22475 of 2008 Between: Kothakonda Dewakka Alias Dewatha, D/o. Vadla Lasmaiah, R/o. Metpally Village and Mandal, Karimnagar District, Andhra Pradesh ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Principal Secretary, Revenue State of Andhra Pradesh, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 Joint Collector, Karimnagar District, Collector Office, Karimnagar (A.P) 3 Revenue Divisional Officer, Jagtial, Karimnagar District (A.P). 4 Tahsildar, Metpally Mandal, Karimnagar District (A.P.) 5 Yegyarpau (Velgonda) Narsaiah, S/o. Limbaiah, Metpally Village and Mandal, Karimnagar District (A.P.) 6 Kaithi Raju, W/o. Nedipi Gangaram, Godhoor Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal, Karimnagar District. 7 Buram Janardhan, S/o. Govind, R/o. Godhoor Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal, Karimnagar District. 8 Gajabheemkar @ Katike Mallaiah, R/o. Metpally Village & Mandal, Karimnagar District. 9 Lavudya Raju, S/o. Kishan, R/o. Odde Lingapur V, Raikal Mandal, Karimnagar District. 10 G. Pushpalatha, C/o. Erram Raja Reddy, Advocate, District Courts, Karimnagar District. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a writ or order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Certiorari calling upon the respondent Nos.1 to 4 to certify and produce all necessary records relating to the case and on perusal thereof, quash and/or set aside the impugned order of respondent No. 2, dated 21-8-2008 passed in proceedings No. D1/4176/2008 in respect of the property of the petitioner, being agricultural land admeasuring Ac. 0.35 gts., in Survey No. 616 situated at Metpally Village and Mandal, Karimnagar District, as arbitrary, without jurisdiction, violative principles of natural justice, illegal and as such not sustainable in law and direct the respondent No. 2 to proceed in accordance with law. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.NARAYAN LAXMAN RAO Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.22475 OF 2008 ORDER: It is the case of the petitioner that the subject land admeasuring Ac.0.35 gts. in Sy.No.616 of Metpally village and Mandal, Karimnagar District, is an inam land and the same was granted by the Government to her father and, subsequent to his death, she succeeded to the said property. While so, she came to know that the 5th respondent has illegally got mutated his name in the revenue records pertaining to the subject land and sold the same to respondents 6 to 10. Thereupon, she ﬁled an appeal, under Section 158 of A.P. (Telangana Area) Land Revenue Act 1317 Fasli, before the 3rd respondent- Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer, Jagtial, bringing to his notice the aforesaid facts and requested to protect her statutory rights over the subject land. The 3rd respondent, after calling for report from the 4th respondent- Tahsildar, Metpalli and relevant records pertaining to the subject land, ordered for cancellation of all the mutations eﬀected in respect of the subject land, by order dated 14.03.2008, and directed the 4th respondent to submit proposals for issuance of Occupancy Rights Certiﬁcate to the Inamdar, after due enquiry under A.P. (T.A.) Abolition of Inams Act, 1955. Accordingly, the 4th respondent conducted enquiry and submitted his report and proposal, and pursuant thereto, the 3rd respondent, by order dated 04.06.2008, has ordered for issuance of Occupancy Rights Certiﬁcate in favour of the petitioner in respect of the subject land. Questioning both the orders dated 14.03.2008 and 04.06.2008, the respondents 6 to 10 ﬁled a revision petition before the 2nd respondent- Joint Collector, Karimnagar, wherein interim stay of the said orders was granted by the 2nd respondent, by the impugned order dated 21.08.2008. Aggrieved by the same, the present writ petition is filed. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that though the petitioner ﬁled a caveat petition before the 2nd respondent, in anticipation of ﬁling of a revision by the unoﬃcial respondents, no notice was issued to her before passing of the impugned order. He further submits that the revision is not maintainable as it is barred by limitation, and that apart, while the appeal preferred by the petitioner was under Section 158 of A.P. (Telangana Area) Land Revenue Act 1317 Fasli, the respondents 6 to 10 ﬁled the revision petition under Section 9 of A.P. Rights in Land & Pattadar Passbooks Act, 1971, which is not maintainable. Learned Government Pleader for Revenue submits that instead of passing an order on merits, a direction may be given to the 2nd respondent- Joint Collector for disposal of the revision petition filed by unofficial respondents. In view of the above submission and in the facts and circumstances of the case, without going into the merits, I deem it appropriate to direct the 2nd respondent- Joint Collector, Karimnagar, to dispose of the revision petition ﬁled by respondents 6 to 10, within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, after issuing notice to the petitioner herein and taking into consideration all the objections raised by her. With the above directions, the writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. _____________ N.V. RAMANA,J 16th October, 2008 IBL