THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 20870 of 1997 O R D E R: This Writ Petition has been instituted calling in question the orders passed by the Revenue Divisional Officer, Karimnagar Division, Karimnagar on 9th July 1997, cancelling the assignment of land of an extent of Ac.1.20 guntas in Survey No. 96 at Bommakal Village, Karimnagar District made in favour of the writ petitioners on the ground that the land is a shikam land and that in view of the policy decision, the tank bed poramboke lands should not be assigned. The case of the writ petitioners is that both of them have been assigned land in question as long back as on 25th January 1982 and they were also put in possession of the said land. The essential reason for assigning this land in favour of the petitioners was that their respective husbands, who worked as Police Constables, were done to death by extremists and, therefore, the State Government, as a policy measure, to rehabilitate the dependants of the victims of extremist violence, assigned these lands. Since there was an apparent conflict of interests between two policy decisions, one coming in the way of assigning tank bed poramboke lands and the other requiring the assignment to be made in favour of the victims of the extremist violence, the respondents, in particular the District Collector, Karimnagar, on the previous occasion was suggested to reconsider the entire matter. The learned Government Pleader has used his good offices in this regard and he has also stated at the Bar that the Mandal Revenue Officer/Tahasildar, Muttaram of Manthani Mandal, granted the assignment patta on 13th November 2009 in favour of both the writ petitioners assigning them land of an extent of Ac.1.20 guntas each situate in Survey Nos. 137/2 and 137/3 respectively of Dharyapur Village in the said Mandal. A copy of these pattas were also handed over to the learned counsel for the writ petitioners. In view of these developments, resulting in assignment of equal extent of land in favour of both the writ petitioners, on 13th November 2009, which is, in effect, an alternative land, which is assigned, I consider it appropriate to dispose of this Writ Petition leaving it open to the writ petitioners to agitate, if any of their grievances are still subsisting. The alternative land has become necessary to be assigned, in view of the finding of fact that land assigned in favour of the writ petitioners earlier in Bommakal Village in Survey No. 96 was classified as tank bed poramboke namely shikam land. Such lands should not be assigned. Hence, no further orders are needed to be passed in this Writ Petition. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. ---------------------------------- (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) 8th December 2009 ksld