IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.23172 of 2008 Between: 1 A.G.S. Raju, S/o. Chandra Raju, R/o. Plot No. D116, Madhura nagar, Hyderabad. 2 Smt. C. Rajika, D/o. Premanand, R/o. Plot No. 1266, Road No. 36, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. 3 V. Vijayalakshmi, W/o. Ranga Raju, R/o. JP Nagar Colony, Miyapur, Hyderabad. 4 AKHS Ramaraju, S/o. AVS Raju, R/o. Plot No. 168/A, Road No. 10, Jubliee Hills, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The District Collector, Medak District at Sangareddy. 2 The Joint Collector, Medak District at Sangareddy. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Sangareddy Revenue Division, Medak District. 4 The Tahsildar, Patancheruvu Mandal, Medak District. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a Writ or order or direction specially writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to conduct survey and ﬁx boundaries by demarcating the petitioner's land with that of neighbouring assignee's land of Sy.No. 120, Peddakanjerla Village, Patanchervu Mandal, Medak District under the provisions of the A.P. Survey & Boundaries Act, 1923 by declaring the inaction of the respondents in not considering the application dated 30-9-2008 for conducting the survey and ﬁxing the boundaries as arbitrary, unjust and violative of Art. 14 of Constitution of India and pass Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.L.PRABHAKAR REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.23172 of 2008 O R D E R: In this writ petition, the petitioners grievance is that they made representations to the respondents on 01.09.2006 and also on 30.09.2008 seeking to conduct a survey and ﬁx boundaries with reference to their lands situated in Survey No.120 with that of neighbouring lands of Peddakanjerla Village, Patancheru Mandal, Medak District, but the respondents have not taken any action on the said representations. Hence, the present writ petition. Today when the matter is taken up, on instructions, the learned Government Pleader for Revenue submitted that the Tahsildar, Patancheru Mandal, the fourth respondent herein by his letter dated 18.10.2008 requested the Assistant Director of Survey and Land Records, Sanga Reddy to conduct a survey and ﬁx boundaries in respect of the land situated in Survey No.120 of Peddakanjerla Village, and produced a copy of the said letter, which reads as hereunder: “It is come to the notice that the several transactions took place in three Sy.Nos. and some of the assignees also not having physical possession and violated the POT Act and some of the Pattedars encroached the Govt. Lands in Govt. area. If the Survey work is conducted by a team of 8 to 10 members. The encroachers will be come out and who where is the Pattedar land is also known and further it is come to the notice that several transactions took place regarding purchase of plots while making layouts on paper but actually there is no layout. And several plot purchasers are also pressing to this office to trace out the land. I therefore request to A.D(S&LR’s) Sanga Reddy kindly to survey with a team of Surveyors and for demarcation of land as per possession and ﬁx up the survey boundaries of three Sy.Nos. so that encroachers and as well as illegal assignees who are possession on the ground for easily eviction to them.” The learned Government Pleader submits that since steps have already been taken to conduct survey of the lands in question, instead of this Court going into the merits of the matter, the Assistant Director of Survey and Land Records, Sanga Reddy may be directed to expedite the survey, for which course of action, the learned counsel for the petitioners also agreed In the circumstances, the Assistant Director of Survey and Land Records, Sanga Reddy is directed to expedite the survey and complete the same within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. N.V. RAMANA, J Date: 24.10.2008 va/msv