THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.CHANDRAIAH W.P.NO.6806 OF 2006 O R D E R Aggrieved by the inaction of the respondent – Land Acquisition Officer, Revenue Divisional Officer, Nalgonda in referring the award bearing no.D/2474/99 dated 27.3.2002 to the civil court, the petitioners, who are the land owners, filed the present revision. 2. The petitioners are four in number. Their case as per the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition is that they are the owners and possessors of the open house plots and shops admeasuring 665-50 sq. yards situated in Sy.1205; an extent of 1,109-17 sq. yards situate in Sy.No.1206, an extent of 665.50 sq. yards in sy.no.1207 and, an extent of 233-33 sq. yards situate in Sy.No.1219. All the survey numbers are situate in Pangal Revenue Village, Nalgonda Mandal, Nalgonda District. The said land was acquired for formation of Addanki Narketpally bye-pass road after giving statutory notifications under the Land Acquisition Act and award was passed on 27.3.2002. In the award, market value of the land was determined at the rate of Rs.60,000/- per acre for dry lands, Rs.65,000/- per acre for wet land and Rs.60/- per sq. yard to those lands, for which plots were made and layouts were approved. The grievance of the petitioners is that no notices either under Section 9 or under Section 12(2) of the Act, were served on them and when they filed applications on 12.6.2002 under Section 18 of the Act for referring the matters to the civil court for claiming enhancement, the said applications were not referred to the civil court and hence they filed the present writ petition. 3. The respondent filed counter affidavit and while referring to the acquisition of the land; passing of the award on 27.3.2002 and the serving of notices under Section 12(2) of the Act on the petitioners on 29.4.2002 and 15.5.2002, stated that the applications said to have been made by the petitioners under Section 18 of the Act, do not contain any sign or initial by the then LAO and RDO, Nalgonda and there is no corresponding entry in the D.R. register maintained for recording the petitions who seek to refer the cases under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, but their applications filed place in the Section 18 Register. As per the office procedure the petition field, shall be initialed by RDO and LAO and then entered in the DR Register and acknowledgement will be issued to the petitioner with date and stamp as token of receipt of the petition. But these petitions bear the date stamp of LAO Office showing as if these petitions were received on 12.6.2002. But these applications do not bear the initial of RDO and LAO to prove their bona fidies. These facts have been reported to the District Collector, Nalgonda vide this office Lr.No.D/2474/99 dated 31.10.2002. The District Collector, Nalgonda has examined the matter and rejected the claims, as they do not bear the initial of RDO to prove their bona fides and accordingly memo in Lr.No.D/2474/99 dated 22.7.2005 was issued to the petitioners stating that their request cannot be considered. 4. From the above averments the undisputed facts are that the lands of the petitioners were acquired and award was passed on 27.3.2002. The grievance of the petitioners is that as the compensation awarded was meager they filed applications on 12.6.2002 before the respondent – LAO/RDO for referring the matter to the civil court under Section 18 of the Act, but no action was taken. In the counter filed by the respondent it is stated that the said applications said to have been filed by the petitioners do not bear the initial (sign) of the RDO and LAO and they also do not find place in the relevant DR register and they filed place only in the Section 18 Register. As the applications do not bear the initials, the District Collector passed orders in memorandum dated 2.7.2005 rejecting the case of the petitioners. 5. As the District Collector passed the proceedings dated 2.7.2005 rejecting the case of the petitioner, liberty is given to the petitioners to challenge the memo dated 2.7.2005 in appropriate proceedings. Accordingly the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. AVS ------------------------------ 22—12—2009