THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA Writ Petition No.9372 of 2005 ORDER: The petitioner filed the present writ petition seeking a Writ of Mandamus to direct the respondents to allot her an undisputed land or alternatively to protect the plot in Survey No.227 of Vaddepally Village, Warangal District allotted in her favour; and to further declare the action of the Government for not protecting the rights of the individuals to whom the lands were allotted under the rehabilitation scheme as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner claims to be the widow of one Nagabhushanam, who was killed by the Naxallites on 13.10.1990. Thereafter, under the rehabilitation scheme, the Government allotted her a plot admeasuring an extent of 300 sq. yards in Survey No.227 of Vaddepalli village. However, after such allotment, some third parties raised civil litigations claiming the said land to be belonging to them. Therefore, she requested the respondent-authorities to allot her an alternative house site. When no action was taken by the respondents, she filed W.P. No. 2852 of 2004 before this Court. However, in view of the submission of the third respondent that an alternative land in an extent of 300 sq. yards in survey No.366 of Kadipikonda village was identified for allotment to the petitioner, the said writ petition was disposed of by this Court on 7.3.2004, directing the respondents to handover the alternative land admeasuring 300 square yards situated in Survey No. 366 of Kadipikonda Village to the petitioner within a period of one week. In view of the abnormal and inordinate delay in the matter, the District Collector, Warangal District was directed to conduct necessary enquiry into the matter and find out the persons, who were responsible for causing such delay in allotting and handing over of the site to the petitioner and to take appropriate departmental action against the concerned. Alleging that the alternative land in Survey No. 366 which was sought to be allotted to her was already allotted to some third parties and no action was being taken by the respondents for providing her alternative land free from litigations, the petitioner filed the present writ petition. While opposing the contentions, the third respondent has filed a counter affidavit on 22.3.2010. However, as the counter affidavit did not disclose the reasons for the inordinate delay in allotment of land to the petitioner and as to the nature of the enquiry conducted by the District Collector with regard to allotment of such land to the petitioner, this Court, on 22nd March, 2010, has directed the respondents 2 and 3 to appear before this Court and to explain the reasons. During the course of hearing, learned Government Pleader for Revenue has placed before this Court a copy of the proceedings bearing Rc. No E2/1324/2010, dated 13.4.2010 of the District Collector, Warangal, wherein it is stated that the land in an extent of 300 Sq. yards in Survey No.27 situated at Kazipet Village of Hanamkonda Mandal, which is free from encroachments and suitable for house sites was identified by the Tahsildar, Hanamkonda. It is necessary to extract the relevant portion, which reads thus: “In this regard, it is submitted that the R.D.O., Warangal has further informed that the alternate land for an extent of 300 Sq. yrds in Sy. No.27 situated at Kazipet (J)(V) of Hanamkonda (M) was identified by the Tahsildar, Hanamkonda, which is free from encroachments and suitable for house sites. Moreover, the petitioner herein has also given consent on 8.4.2010 to take the alternate land in Sy No. 27 situated at Kazipet (V) instead of land in Sy. No.227 situated at Waddepally (V) of Hanamkonda (M).” While taking the aforesaid proceedings on record, the District Collector, Warangal, the 1st respondent herein, is directed to instruct the Tahsildar, Hanamkonda to physically handover possession of the said plot to the petitioner within a period of one week from today. With the above observations, the writ petition is closed. No costs. ___________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Date: 15.04.2010 pnb