THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO Writ Petition No.16784 OF 2010 2nd September, 2010 Between :- K.Srinivasa Sharma and others .. Petitioners And The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. By its Principal Secretary to Government, Revenue (Endowments) Department, A.P.Secretariat, Hyderabad and others .. Respondents THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO Writ Petition No.16784 OF 2010 ORDER:- This Writ Petition can be disposed of right at this stage. The three petitioners are aggrieved by the orders passed by the State Government in their Memo dt.29-6-2009 dismissing the revision petition preferred by them against the Orders passed by the Commissioner of Endowments, Hyderabad, on 14-3-2006. Though several contentions have been canvassed, however, for the present, the matter is confined to one single objection namely that the State Government has passed final orders to the impugned memo on 29-6-2010 dismissing the revision preferred by the writ petitioners herein without either putting them or their learned Counsel on notice prior to passing such final orders. Hence, it is contended that the State Government has passed final orders in violation of principles of natural justice. On 3-8-2010, I directed the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Endowments to obtain instructions as to whether the petitioners herein, who are the petitioners in the revision petition referred to supra, or their learned Counsel has been put on notice prior to passing the final orders on 29-6-2009. Today, the learned Government Pleader would submit that there is no such record available to vouch for the fact that the petitioners have been put on notice of the date of hearing of the revision petition. There is no record either to show that the notice of hearing has been intimated to the petitioners or to the learned Counsel who entered appearance on behalf of the revision petitioners. Hence, it is manifestly clear that the impugned order has been passed by the State Government without affording an opportunity of hearing either to the petitioners or to their learned Counsel. Only on this short ground the impugned order deserves to be set aside as the State Government passed orders without affording a fair and reasonable opportunity for the writ petitioners to put forth their case before the Government. It is needless to observe that all contentions canvassed on merits have been kept open as they are not taken into consideration or account. The State Government is directed to hear and decide the revision petition preferred by the petitioners herein as early as possible, at any rate, before 31-12-2010. It is needless to observe that either the petitioners herein who are the revision petitioners before the Government or the learned Counsel who entered appearance on their behalf should be provided the intimation of the date of hearing of the revision petition at least a week days before the proposed date of hearing. The Writ Petition stands allowed. The impugned order is set aside. The matter is remitted back for fresh consideration by the State Government. No costs. ____________________________ Nooty Ramamohana Rao,J 2nd September, 2010 smr