IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 14781 of 2008 Between: 1 Kadagala Kurmaiah S/o.Subbaiah R/o.21-12-110/A,Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 2 Adduri Naga Babu S/o.Simhachalam R/o.21-12-103, Ramalayama Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 3 Vinnakota Ramamohana Rao S/o.Lakshmaiah R/o.D.No.21-12-114,Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 4 Pinninti Rama Krishna S/o.Sanyasappadu R/o.D.No.21-12-114,Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 5 Manikonda Vanisri W/o.Nageswara RAo R/o.D.No.21-12-105/A,Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 6 Nekkinti Subba Lakshmi W/o.Ranga Rao R/o.D.No.21-12- Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada 7 Chennamsetty Nageswara RAo S/o.Maha Lakshmaiah R/o.Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada 8 Lanka Samrajyam W/o.Veeranjaneyulu R./o.D.No.21-12-142 Kedar Road , Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 9 Nekkinit Satyanarayana S/o.Bapanna R./o.D.No.21-12- Kedar Road , Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 10 Barma Siva Venkateswara Rao S/o.Subbaiah R./o.D.No.21-12-140 Kedar Road , Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 11 Akula Koteswara Rao S/o.Gopaiah R/o.D.No.21-12-103/.B Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 12 Sri Rangaraju Srinivasa Bhattar S/o.Venkata Bhattar R/o.D.No.21-12-146 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 13 Parsa Venkateswaramma W/o.Raghavulu R/o.D.No.21-12-138 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 14 Mamidibathula Veera Venkata Durga Prasad S/o.Nageswara Rao R/o.D.No.21-12-150 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 15 Atkuri Nagaraju S/o.Subbarao R/o.D.No.21-12-141 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 16 Bodi Somaraju S/o.Venkateswara Rao R/o.D.No.21-12-174 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 17 Thota Jayalakshmi W/o.Govderhan Rao R/o.D.No.21-12-146 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 18 Yerramsettty Ragavamma W/o.Madhava Rao R/o.D.No.21-12-147 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 19 Byneedu Srinivasa Rao S/o.Mastanrao R/o.D.No.21-12-144 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 20 Uppu Lakshminarasamma W/o.MNadhusudhan Rao R/o.D.No.21-12-148 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 21 Kondeboina Bhagyalakshmi Devi W/o. China Venkateswarlu R/o.D.No.21-12-150 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 22 Inapala Kanaka Durga W/o.Venkata Narayana R/o.D.No.21-12-122/1 Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 23 Inapala Rangamma W/o.Radhakrishna Rao R/o.D.No.21-12-85/B, Boina Gangadhar Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 24 Dadi Venkata Rama Devi W/o.Nukaraju R/o.D.No.21-12- Kerosine Bund Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 25 Godavari Nageswara Rao S/o.Sethaiah R/o.D.No.21-12-114/1 Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 26 Panduranki Srinivasa Rao S/o.Ramulu R/o.D.No.21-12-110/B Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 27 Srilam Kanaka Chintaiah S/o.Subbaiah R/o.D.No.21-12-145 Kedar Veddhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 28 Intei Nirmala S/o.Ajay Kumr R/o.D.No.21-12-151/A Kedar Veddhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 29 Tikkasetty Jhansi Rani W/o.Ranga RAo R/o.D.No.21-12-103/A, Ramalayam Veedhi Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 30 Peram Savitramma W/o.Sriramamurthy R/o.D.No.21-12-134 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 31 Fatimunnisa W/o.Late Mastanvali R/o.D.No.21-12-165 Anand rao street Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 32 A.Satyavathi W/o.Sreemannarayana R/o.D.No.21-12-168 Anand rao street Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 33 Velaga Dhanalakshmi W/o.V.Rama Krishna 39 R/o.D.No.21-12-169 Anand rao street Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 34 Krovi Raghu S/o.Vana Mohan Rao R/o.D.No.21-12-189 Anand rao street Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 35 Bhimana Boina Sampuran w/o.Vijaya Kumar R/o.D.No.21-12-170 Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 36 Murumalla Ammaji W/o.Appalachari R/o.D.No.21-12- Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 37 Chillagiri Sambasiva Rao S/o.Venkata Subbaiah R/o.D.No.21-12-156 Kedar Road Indira Colony,Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 38 SeelamSeetamahalakshmi W/o.Sambasiva RAo R/o.D.No.21-12-117/2 Ramalayam Veedhi Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 39 Korampalli Mastanamma W/o.Krishna Rao R/o.D.No.21-12-131 Ramalayam Veedhi Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 40 A.V.S.Prasad S/o.Sree Rama Murthy R/o.D.No.21-12-124 Ramalayam Veedhi Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 41 Yendrati Israil S/o.Shedrak R/o.D.No.21-12-141/A Kedar Raod Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 42 Govindaluri Venkata Ramana S/o.Panduranga RAo R/o.D.No.21-12-94/2 Ramalayam Veedhi Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 43 Markanda Ratna Manikyam S/o.Gopala Krishna Murthy R/o.21-12-89, Boina Gangadhar Rao Street Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 44 Pasupuleti Venkata Ramana S/o.Venkata Vara Prasad R/o.21-12- Ramalayam Veedhi Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 45 Chennuboina Mery Kusuma Kumari W/o.Prasad R/o.21-12-112 Ramalayam Veedhi Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 46 N.V.Subba Rao S/o.Sambasiva Rao R/o.21-12-103/4 Ramalayam Veedhi Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 47 Kona Aruna W/o.Venkateswara RAo R/o.21-12-166 Anandrao Street Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 48 Sambana Annaji Rao S/o.Sanyasi Lingam R/o.D.No.21-12-188 Annajirao Street Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 49 Sana Ranga Rao S/o.Venkata Ratnam R/o.D.No.21-12- Kedar Road Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 50 Nagisetty Rama Devi W/o.Sambasiva Rao R/o.D.No.21-12-173 Anandrao street Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 51 Agasthi Venkata Siva Rama Krishna S/o.Subba Rao R/o.21-12-173, Anandrao street Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 52 Yerramsetty Vijayalakshmi W/o.Sarveswara Rao R/o.21-12-106 Ramalayam street Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 53 Muuta Ramu S/o.Rama Krishna R/o.21-12-97/A, Ramalayam street Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 54 Jana Jyothi W/o.Sasi Kumar R/o.21-12-160/A Kedar Road Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 55 Dasam Venkateswara Rao S/o.Anjaiah R/o.21-12-154 Kedar Road Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 56 Dasam Sunitha W/o.Seetarama Rao R/o.21-12-105/A Ramalayam Veedhi Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 57 Nagireddy Rajula Reddy S/o.Subba Reddy R/o.21-12-102/.A Ramalayam Veedhi Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 58 Kodiboina Venkata Ganesh S/o.Nageswara Rao R/o.21-12- Anand Rao Street Indira colony, Madhura Nagar,Vijayawada-11 ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The State of AP., rep.by PrincipalSecretary, Revenue(UC.I) Department, Hyderabad 2 The Special Officer &Competent Authority, Urban Land Ceiling, Vijayawada .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.P.ANAND SESHU Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is filed for a writ of Mandamus to declare the inaction of the respondents in regularizing the house plots of the petitioners in their occupation in terms of G.O.Ms.No.455/456, Revenue (U.C.I) Department, dated 29-07-2002 as arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional. The petitioners sought for a consequential direction to the respondents to regularize their occupation of the plots in their respective possession. The petitioners claim to be in occupation of small extents in N.T.S No.7, R.S.No.11/1 of Machavaram Village, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation known as Indira Colony, Madhura Nagar. They claimed that the said property being surplus land under the provisions of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976, respondent No.2 issued notices to them to apply for regularization of their unauthorized possession in terms of G.O.Ms.No.455 dated 29-07- 2002, and that in response to the said notices, they have submitted their applications by remitting the prescribed amounts for regularization in January, 2006. The grievance of the petitioners is that despite receipt of those applications along with the prescribed amounts, respondent No.2 has not passed appropriate orders to regularize their unauthorized possession. Having heard the learned counsel for the parties, I find justification in the grievance of the petitioners. Having issued notices and received the applications from the petitioners along with the payments, the obligation lies on respondent No.2 to pass appropriate orders. In this view of the matter, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to respondent No.2 to dispose of the applications of the petitioners for regularization, filed in response to his notices issued in the year 2005, if not already done, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. If orders have not already been passed, the petitioners shall not be dispossessed till such time as the orders have been passed. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP No.19103 of 2008 filed by the petitioners for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:10th July, 2008 vrn