IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) SATURDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION Nos 19328, 19330, 19350, 19352, 19356 and 19366 of 2008 W.P.No.19328 of 2008 Between: B. Sudha, D/o. B. Bapineedu, R/o. 13/140, patimeeda, Gudivada, Krishna District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by the Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 The District Collector, Visakhapatnam. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Visakhapatnam. 4 The Tahsildar, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam. .....RESPONDENTS W.P.No.19330 of 2008 Between: B.Anand S/o.B.Chidambareeswara Rao 402 MGR Estates, Dwarakapuri Colony, Panjagutta, Hyderabad - 500 082. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The State of A.P. represented by the Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 The District Collector, Visakhapatnam. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Visakhapatnam. 4 The Tahsildar, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam. ...RESPONDENTS WRIT PETITION NO : 19350 of 2008 Between: B.Venkata Satya Vani W/o.B.S.N.Raju R/o.Flat No.A202, Paradise Apartments, Seethammadhara, Visakhapatnam. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The State of Andhra Pradesh represented by the Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 The District Collector, Visakhapatnam. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Visakhapatnam. 4 The Tahsildar, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam. ..RESPONDENTS WRIT PETITION NO : 19352 of 2008 Between: P.Radha Rani W/o. P.Muralikrishna R/o. 103, Swagruha Apartments, Dutch Layout, Visakhapatnam. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The State of A.P., rep. by the Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, hyderabad. 2 The District Collector, Visakhapatnam. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Visakhapatnam. 4 The Tahsildar, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam. ...RESPONDENTS WRIT PETITION NO : 19356 of 2008 Between: P. Radha Rani W/o. P. Muralikrishna R/o. 103, Swagruha Apartments, Dutch Layout, Visakhapatnam. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The State of A.P., rep. by the Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 The District Collector, Visakhapatnam. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Visakhapatnam. 4 The Tahsildar, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, Visakhapatnam. ..RESPONDENTS WRIT PETITION NO : 19366 of 2008 Between: B. Annapurna W/o. Bapineedu Boppana R/o. 13/140, Patimeeda, Gudivada, Krishna Distirct. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The State of A.P., rep. by the Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 2 The Distirct Collector, Visakhapatnam. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Visakhapatnam. 4 The Tahsildar, Bheemunipatnam Mandal, visakhapatnam ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the petitioners: SRI P.LAXMA REDDY Counsel for the respondents:AGP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : COMMON ORDER: In this batch of writ petitions, the grievance of the petitioners is that though they made applications under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 (for short “the Act”) to respondent No.4 for correcting the record of rights, by entering their names, no action is taken by the said respondent. I have heard Sri P.Laxma Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue and perused the record. The petitioners claim that they purchased the properties from the vendee of Sri Poosapati Aloknarayana Gajapathi Raju, who executed a registered sale deed dated 11-02-2005 alienating an extent of Acs.2.75 cents in favour of the vendor of the petitioners, namely; Andiboyena Gurumurthy. As the said Aloknarayana Gajapathi Raju unilaterally cancelled the said sale deed, the petitioners’ vendor ﬁled W.P.No.5606 of 2006, in which the cancellation of sale deed was suspended by this Court. Subsequently, the petitioners purchased diﬀerent extents of property from out of Acs.2.75 cents from the said Andiboyena Gurumurthy. According to the petitioners, they acquired right in the properties, which were purchased by them, and therefore, it is incumbent upon respondent No.4 to consider their applications for mutation of their names in the record of rights. Under Section 4 of the Act, if any person acquires any right in a land by succession, survivorship, inheritance, partition etc., he is entitled to intimate the same in writing to the Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer concerned (Tahsildar) and under Section 5 of the Act, it is incumbent upon the said authority to hold an enquiry, after giving notices to all the persons interested and after considering the objections, if any, received by him, he shall pass an order and communicate the same to the persons concerned. Since the grievance of the petitioners that respondent No.4 has not followed this mandatory procedure appears to be legitimate, the writ petitions are disposed of with the direction to respondent No.4 to follow the procedure prescribed under Section 5 of the Act, pass appropriate orders, after due enquiry, and communicate the same to the petitioners, within a period of eight (8) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. As a sequel to disposal of main petitions, WPMP Nos. 25202, 25204, 25239, 25241, 25246 and 25266 of 2008 in W.P. Nos. 19328, 19330, 19350, 19352, 19356 and 19366 of 2008 respectively ﬁled by the petitioners for interim relief are disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 6th September, 2008 vrn