HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.29431 of 2010 Date: April 06, 2011 Between: Y. Ramesh Babu … Petitioner And 1. The District Collector, Krishna District at Machilipatnam and 2 others. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.29431 of 2010 O R D E R: The complaint of the petitioner is that the respondent authorities are not passing orders upon his application for conversion of his land admeasuring Acs.5.00 in Survey No.3/1 of Pinapaka village, G. Konduru Mandal, Krishna District, despite receiving the conversion fee of Rs.73,675/- on 21.12.2009. The application of the petitioner was made under the provisions of the A.P. Agricultural Land (Conversion for Non-Agricultural Purposes) Act, 2006. 2. On instructions, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue stated that there was a title dispute with regard to the land claimed by the petitioner. If that be so, the authorities are expected to pass orders upon the petitioner’s application one way or the other. The said application cannot be kept pending indefinitely. All the more so, after payment of a substantial sum of money by the petitioner towards conversion charges. 3. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of directing the respondents to pass necessary orders upon the petitioner’s application dated 20.12.2009 for conversion of the land use in respect of the subject land claimed by him. Needless to state, in the event the petitioner’s request for conversion is turned down, the respondent authorities shall refund the amount paid by him. In the circumstances, there shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: April 06, 2011. BSB