IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD DATED: THIS 7th day of April, 2011 PRESENT: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY W.P.No. 16756 of 2003 Between: Qurban Fatima and others ..Petitioners and The MRO Rajendernagar And others Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY W.P.No. 16756 of 2003 O r d e r: The petitioners numbering ten filed this writ petition to declare the action of the first respondent – the Mandal Revenue Officer, Rajendranagar in threatening to dispossess the petitioners from the plots which are in their possession, as arbitrary and illegal and consequently directing him not to dispossess them without following due process of Law. 2. This court while issuing notice before admission on 11-08- 2003 directed the respondents not to interfere with the possession of the petitioners over the property belongs to them. Though the said interim order has been continued from the said date till now, the first respondent did not file any counter so far. 3. The second respondent – Wakf Board filed counter stating that it is not within the knowledge of the second respondent about the third respondent allotting plots in Survey No.524/1 attached to the Dargah Hazrath Mir Mahmood Qibla, Qayyaumnagar, Attapur village, Ranga Reddy District to petitioner Nos. 1 to 10 and respondent No.3 is collecting an amount of Rs.10-00 per annum as Nuzool. The second respondent admitted that it had issued application forms to all the petitioners to regularize the unauthorized occupants as tenants of A.P. Wakf Board. Further the second respondent filed O.S.No. 2 of 1998 on the file of Andhra Pradesh Wakf Tribunal against the Assistant Director of Survey and Land records; the District Collector, R.R. District; the Chief Conservator of Forests and the Chief Conservator of Nehru Zoological Park and that suit was decreed infavour of the Wakf Board holding that the land covered by Sy.No.524 measuring an extent of Ac.34.26 guntas situated at Attapur village is part and parcel of Sy.No.213 and 226 of Attapur village and to cancel the allotment of the land infavour of Chief Conservator of Forests and Curator of Nehru Zoological Park, apart from granting permanent injunction against them. It is further stated that the judgment passed by the Wakf Tribunal has become final, as it has not been questioned so far. 4. In view of the above facts and circumstances of the case, this writ petition is disposed of directing the respondents not to dispossess the petitioners from the lands in their respective possession without following due process of law. No costs. ___________________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J. April 7, 2011. *BVS THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY W.P.No. 16756 of 2003 07-04-2011