THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.12802 of 2006 DATED: 12.03.2010 Between: K. Sailaja and others .. Petitioners And The District Collector, Nellore and others .. Respondents ORDER: Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for the respondents. Petitioners claim to be the owners of various extents of land in Sy.No.2027-2C-1C situated at Indira Nagar Colony, Gudur Mandal, Nellore District, having purchased the same, under registered sale deeds, from a registered society namely Gudur Grama Samudaya Bhoomula Vicharana Samstha, Gudur. It is their case that, after the said society has surrendered the surplus land in the said Sy.No.2027- 2C, under the provisions of the A.P. Land Reforms (Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings) Act, 1973, the remaining land of Ac.19.58 cents held by it was purchased by them in plots and the then Assistant Collector of Gudur has also given ‘no objection’ for those sale transactions. It is their further case that, since the date of purchase, they have been in possession of their respective extents of land and some of them have constructed houses in their lands and all of them have been paying municipal tax for their respective lands. While so, it is their grievance that, though they are the lawful owners of their lands, the 3rd respondent-Mandal Revenue Officer, Gudur Mandal, and his subordinates have been threatening and making attempts to dispossess them from their lands, without issuing any notice and without following due process of law, and that their representation dated 12.06.2006 submitted to respondents 1 and 2, bringing to their notice the highhanded action of the 3rd respondent and his subordinates, has not been acted upon. Respondent No.3 filed counter-affidavit, stating that after surrendering the surplus land in Sy.No.2027-2C, the Society was in possession of the land to an extent of Ac.19.58 gts. in Sy.Nos.2027- 2C1B, 2027-2C1C and 2027-2C1D and the respondents have no objection for sale of this part of the land by the Society. It is further stated that, though the petitioners claim to have purchased the aforesaid land held by the Society, they were delivered physical possession of the land, which was surrendered by the Society to Government, covered by Sy.Nos.2027-2C1A1 and 2027-2C1A2, and the petitioners were orally informed of this fact. It is further stated that the Mandal Surveyor has surveyed the land on 31.07.2006 and demarcated the respective lands belonging to Society and the Government, and that not only the petitioners, but also any other persons, if encroached into Government land, will be evicted by following due process of law. In view of the aforesaid stand taken by the respondents that they have surveyed and demarcated the lands and that if the petitioners or any other persons are found to have encroached into the Government land, they will follow due process of law for evicting the encroachers, I am of the considered opinion that no further orders need be passed in this writ petition, as the only grievance of the petitioners is that the respondents have been making attempts to dispossess them from the lands purchased by them, without following due process of law. Accordingly, the writ petition is closed, recording the stand taken by the respondents in the counter-affidavit referred above. No costs. ____________________________ JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA 12th March, 2010 IBL