THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE V. ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No.21100 OF 2007 DATED: 05-10-2007 BETWEEN Syed Mujahid Ali, S/o. Syed Karamantha Ali, Occ: Agriculture, R/o. Bhoktapur Locality of Adilabad. …PETITIONER AND The Revenue Divisional Officer, Adilabad, Adilabad District and another. …RESPONDENTS ORDER: Petitioner submits that the Tahsildar, Adilabad, passed an order in No.C/10018/2007 dated 20.09.2007 resuming the land in an extent of Ac.5.00 cents in Sy.No.72 Paiki of Battisavargaon Village, Adilabad Mandal on the ground that the said land assigned in favour of Yelpeddi Rajanna S/o. Pothanna has been assigned in favour of the petitioner in contravention of sub-Section (2) of Section 3 of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (for short ‘the Act’). He further submits that aggrieved by the said order he filed an appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer on 29.09.2007 along with an application for grant of stay but even before the stay application or the appeal has been taken up for disposal, the Tahsildar is taking steps to dispossess him. 2. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case and as the appeal filed under Section 4-A(1) of the Act on 29.09.2007 against the order of the Tahsildar/Mandal Revenue Officer dated 20.09.2007 is pending before the first respondent, the first respondent is directed to consider and dispose the appeal as expeditiously as possible without any undue delay and pending disposal of the appeal the petitioner shall not be dispossessed. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ V. ESWARAIAH, J October 5, 2007 DSK