THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.5364 of 2009 ORDER: The petitioners feel aggrieved by a notice, dated 21.02.2009, issued by the Revenue Divisional Officer, Peddapuram, East Godavari District, the second respondent herein. The petitioners were issued pattadar pass books and title deeds over an extent of Acs.9.40 cents of land in Survey Nos.82/1 and 82/2 of Somavaram Village, Kirlampudi Mandal, East Godavari District. Through the impugned notice, the second respondent informed the petitioners that the land is part of tank bed and the issuance of pattadar pass books and title deeds in respect of the same is impermissible. Reference is also made to the instructions issued by the Collector, East Godavari District. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue. Normally, this Court would not interfere with a show cause notice issued by an authority conferred with the power. It is not in dispute that the second respondent is conferred with the appellate power and in a given case, he may take up the proceedings even on suo motu basis. Be that as it may, any steps taken or orders passed under the Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 (for short ‘the Act’) are always subject to adjudication by a civil Court. Section 8(2) of the Act makes this aspect very clear. Feeling aggrieved by the various steps being taken by the Government, the petitioners themselves approached the civil Court by filing O.S.No.23 of 2009 on the file of the Principal Senior Civil Judge, Peddapuram. The respondents herein are impleaded as defendants in that suit. Therefore, the exercise proposed to be undertaken by the second respondent would be superfluous. Hence, the writ petition is allowed and the impugned notice is set aside. It is left open to the petitioners as well as the respondents herein to put forward all their contentions in the pending suit. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt:17.03.2009 kdl