THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No :2437 of 2008 DATED:08-02-2008 BETWEEN: Chalamalasetty Rama Rao. ..... PETITIONER AND The Revenue Divisional Officer, Gudiwada, Krishna District & another. .....RESPONDENTS ORDER: Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as the learned Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for the respondents. 2. Petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in dispossessing the petitioner on 09-02-2008 or any date from Ac.13.02 cents in Sy.Nos.928, 929, 930 cents in Varivaka village, Mudinepally mandal, Krishna District while appeal, dated 06-12-2007, of the petitioner is pending against the orders in Rc.No.D-641/2007, dated 12-10-2007, of 2nd respondent, as illegal, and arbitrary. 3. It is the case of the petitioner that as against the resumption orders passed by the 2nd respondent- Tahsildar, Mudinepalli mandal, Krishna District, dated 12-10-2007, in Rc.B/641/2007 in resuming the land of an extent of Ac.13.02 cents in Sy.Nos. 928, 929, 930 situated at Varivaka village, Mudinepally mandal, Krishna District on the ground that the said land was an assigned land but in contravention of sub- Section 2 of Section 3 of the A.P.Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (for brevity, ‘the Act’), petitioner purchased the said land. 4. It is stated that aggrieved by the said order petitioner filed an appeal before the 1st respondent-Revenue Divisional Officer, Gudivada on 06-12-2007 along with the stay application and the same is said to have been pending. 5. Having regard to the facts and circumstances, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, 1st respondent is directed to consider and dispose of the appeal said to have been filed on 06-12-2007 pending against the order of the 2nd respondent Rc.No.D-641/2007, dated 12-10-2007, in accordance with law. Pending disposal of the appeal status quo obtaining as on today shall be maintained. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________ V.ESWARAIAH,J 08th February, 2008. Note: Furnish C.C. of the order within two days. B/o Tsy