THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.1636 OF 2011 DATED 29TH JANUARY, 2011 BETWEEN Jangama Veerabadrhappa …Petitioner And The Chief Commissioner of Land Administration at Hyderabad and Others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.1636 OF 2011 O R D E R The grievance of the petitioner is that the Tahsildar, Palamaner Mandal, Chittoor District, fourth respondent, is attempting to dispossess him from the subject land in Survey Nos.762/1 and 762/2A of Moram Village in Palamaner Mandal, Chittoor District, notwithstanding the pendency of his revision before the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. The assignment in respect of the subject land was cancelled by the Tahsildar, Palamaner, under order dated 02.12.2009. Aggrieved thereby, the petitioner filed an appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Madanapalle, which met with failure when it was dismissed under order dated 25.06.2010. He therefore filed a revision petition before the Joint Collector and Additional District Magistrate, Chittoor. By order dated 31.12.2010, the Joint Collector, Chittoor, dismissed the revision and directed the Tahsildar, Palamaner, to take possession of the subject land. The petitioner preferred a revision to the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, against the order of the Joint Collector dated 31.12.2010. Pertinent to note, pending the appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Madanapalle, and the revision before the Joint Collector, Chittoor, the petitioner’s possession over the subject land was protected by orders of this Court in Writ Petition Nos.1387 of 2010 and 20322 of 2010 respectively. As the order dated 31.12.2010 passed by the Joint Collector, Chittoor, itself mentioned that a revision lay therefrom within forty days from the date of receipt to the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Hyderabad, and the said revisional remedy was availed by the petitioner, the direction to the Tahsildar to take possession of the land in the meanwhile would render the revision an exercise in futility. Surprisingly, the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, the revisional authority, having entertained the revision on 18.01.2011 did not choose to pass orders upon the petitioner’s stay application till date. The petitioner therefore apprehends that the Tahsildar, Palamaner, may give effect to the direction contained in the order dated 31.12.2010 passed by the Joint Collector, Chittoor. It is a matter of serious concern that quasi-judicial authorities seized of adjudicatory functions under the statute fail to understand the nature and scope of their duties in this regard. Time and again, this Court has intervened in matters of this nature because of the lethargy and apathy displayed by such authorities in disposing of stay applications pending the statutory remedies. The case on hand is no different. Pending the petitioner’s appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Madanapalle, and thereafter his revision before the Joint Collector, Chittoor, this Court had to protect the petitioner’s possession over the disputed land as those authorities failed to pass interlocutory orders. As the petitioner’s revision pending before the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, would be rendered infructuous if the petitioner’s land is taken possession of pursuant to the order dated 31.12.2010, there shall be a direction to the respondents not to dispossess the petitioner from the subject lands in Survey Nos.762/1 and 762/2A of Moram Village, Palamaner Mandal, Chittoor District, till the disposal of the revision petition dated 18.01.2011 filed by the petitioner before the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. The Writ Petition is disposed of with the above direction at the stage of admission. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J. 29TH JANUARY, 2011. PGS/VGSR THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.1636 OF 2011 DATED 29TH JANUARY, 2011