IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY Writ Petition No. 14277 of 2008 Between: P.Suryanarayana S/o.Venkateswarlu President Jatiya Santhi Sangham R/o.D.No.32-56 Ragannapalem Chilakaluripet, Guntur District ... PETITIONER AND 1) Govt of A.P., Dept of Revenue(Assignment) Secretariat Hyderabad Rep.by its principal Secretary 2) The District Collector, Guntur, District Guntur 3) The Revenue Divisional Officer, Narasaraopet, Guntur District 4) The Mandal Revenue Officer, Chilakaluripet, Guntur District 5) A.P.State Housing Corporation Ltd., Guntur, Rep. by its District Manager, Guntur 6) The Chilakaluripet Municipality, Chilakaluripet, Guntur District Rep. by its Commissioner ...RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue an appropriate writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring action of the respondents in granting house site pattas to the ineligible persons not granting pattas to the real beneﬁciaries inaction of respondents 2to 5 in not taking appropriate action against the complaints submitted by the petitioner from to time and in not furnishing the appropriate information sought by him regarding distribution of the house site pattas in Sy.Nos 179/3 and 179/3A2 of Polireddipalem (V) Chilakaluripeta Municipal limits, Guntur District as arbitrary, unjust, illegal, colourable exercise of power non application of mind to the relevant material violative of the Fundamental Rights guaranteed to the eligible persons under Articles 14,19 & 21 of the Constitution of India apart from being violative of provisions of the Right to Information Act, 2005 and consequently direct the ineligible persons and assign the same to those who are really under below poverty line for those who do not own house site and houses after conducting through enquiry by a higher oﬃcial into the illegalities and irregularities committed by the Competent authority. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.C.V.R.RUDRA PRASAD Counsel for Respondent Nos.1 to 4: GP FOR REVENUE Counsel for Respondent No.5: MR. K. MOHANRAMI REDDY Counsel for Respondent No.6: MR. S. NAGESWARA REDDY The Court made the following: O R D E R: (Per Shri Anil R. Dave, Chief Justice) 1. In this public interest litigation, allegations have been leveled to the eﬀect that certain persons, who are not eligible to get plots of land for residential purpose, have been allotted plots in violation of the policy framed by the government. 2. Learned advocate for the petitioner could not give complete details with regard to the persons who are ineligible to get the government land and yet they have been allotted such land. Learned advocate has, however, drawn our attention to P.15 – letter dated 26.10.2006 addressed by Collector, Guntur District to Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer, Narsaraopet (at page No.61 of the material papers ﬁled along with the writ petition) instructing him to dispose of the application dated 23.10.2006 given by the petitioner herein by providing necessary information under the provisions of the Right to Information Act, 2005. It appears that the said application submitted by the petitioner has not been disposed of. 3. Learned Government Pleader appearing for Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer, Narsaraopet has submitted that within three weeks from today, the application dated 23.10.2006 given by the petitioner herein shall be disposed of by Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer, Narsaraopet, if it was not already disposed of. 4. Upon getting necessary information, it would be open to the present petitioner to take appropriate action against the concerned after ascertaining whether, in fact, the persons, who are not eligible, have been allotted government land. 5. In view of the above development in the matter, the writ petition is disposed with no order as to costs. ANIL R. DAVE, CJ September 24, 2008 R. SUBHASH REDDY, J svs ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{BMR}