HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.19713 of 2010 Date: April 08, 2011 Between: 1. Khadeerunnisa Begum & others … Petitioners and The Joint Collector, Medak at Sangareddy. … Respondent * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.19713 of 2010 O R D E R: The petitioners herein filed an appeal under Section 24 of the A.P (Telangana Area) Abolition of Inams Act, 1955, aggrieved by the grant of occupancy rights certificates in favour of the respondents by the Revenue Divisional Officer, Siddipet. The said appeal was rejected by the Joint Collector, Medak, the Appellate Authority, under endorsement dated 11.3.2010. Challenging the same, the petitioners are before this Court. 2. Perusal of the impugned endorsement dated 11.3.2010 reflects that the Joint Collector, Medak, being of the opinion that the dispute appeared to be of a civil nature, advised the appellants to seek redressal in a competent civil Court. The grounds raised by the petitioners in their appeal under Section 24 of the Act of 1955 reflect that various factual aspects relevant for the purposes of grant of occupancy rights certificates had been raised. These aspects necessarily had to be dealt with by the authority constituted under the Act. The Appellate Authority therefore ought not to have baldly rejected the petitioners’ appeal merely on the ground that it involved a civil dispute. In so far as the said dispute pertained to the grant of occupancy rights certificates under the Act of 1955, the issue fell squarely within the domain of the Appellate Authority under Section 24 of the Act of 1955. 3. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of directing the Joint Collector, Medak, to entertain the appeal filed by the petitioners against the orders dated 13.9.1997 passed by the Revenue Divisional Officer, Siddipet, granting occupancy rights certificates to the respondents in the said appeal and dispose of the same in accordance with law after giving due opportunity of hearing to the parties. No order as to costs. __________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: April 08, 2011. BSB