IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.14552 of 2010 BETWEEN Desireddy Sudhakar Reddy and three others. ... PETITIONERS AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Revenue Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad, rep. by its Principal Secretary and four others. ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners: M/s. B. RAJENDRA Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following order: ORDER: Admittedly, the petitioners’ revision under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 is pending. The said revision along with a stay application was filed before the Government on 21.06.2010. This writ petition was filed on 22.06.2010 i.e. one day thereafter and the petitioners seek a declaration that the action of the revisional authority in not disposing of the stay petition filed along with the revision is arbitrary and illegal. 2. Given the aforestated sequence of events, it is clear that the petitioners did not even give the revisional authority any breathing time to consider the stay petition filed by them along with the revision. The extraordinary jurisdiction of this court is not intended to circumvent statutory remedies (ASSISTANT COLLECTOR OF CENTRAL EXCISE, CHANDAN NAGAR v. DUNLOP INDIA LTD. [AIR 1985 SC 330]). Having availed the remedy of revision under the statute the petitioners cannot seek intervention of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for the purpose of providing interim protection. The interlocutory application filed by the petitioners before the revisional authority is yet to be heard and decided on its own merits. 3. This writ petition is therefore premature. The revisional authority is directed to consider the stay application filed by the petitioners along with the revision petition after giving due opportunity of hearing to the parties and pass appropriate orders thereon in accordance with law. The writ petition is disposed of with the above direction. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ SANJAY KUMAR, J June 29, 2010 Note: Furnish C.C. of the order by 30.06.2010 (B/o) DSK