IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 26836 of 2000 Between: Madan Souri and others ..... PETITIONERS AND The State of A.P. rep. By its Principal Secretary to Revenue, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others ....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.C.HANUMANTHA RAO Counsel for the Respondents: AGP FOR ASSIGNMENT The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of Certiorari to quash proceedings dated 29-09-1977 in C.C.No.1315/76-D of respondent No.3, as conﬁrmed in proceedings dated 22-08- 1980 of respondent No.2. At the hearing, it has come out that declaration under Section 10(3) of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (for short “the Act”) was issued on 08- 07-1985 and no further steps were taken including issue of notice under Section 10(5) of the Act and taking possession in pursuance thereof. Though counter-aﬃdavit is not available in the file, Sri C.Hanumantha Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners, passed on a copy of the counter of the Special Oﬃcer and Competent Authority, Urban Land Ceilings, Guntur District-respondent No.3, wherein in the last paragraph, he stated that declaration under Section 10(3) of the Act was published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette on 08-07-1985. There is no averment that following the said declaration, notice under Section 10(5) of the Act was issued and possession was taken. Therefore, in view of the resolution of the Andhra Pradesh State Legislature adopting the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Repeal Act, 1999 with eﬀect from 27-03-2008, under which the proceedings under the Act will be saved only where notice in writing under sub-section (5) of Section 10 of the Act was ordered calling upon the person concerned to surrender and deliver possession of the land or where possession was taken under sub-section (6) of Section 10 of the Act. Since neither of the two measures was taken in the instant case, all the proceedings initiated against the petitioners stand abated. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 8th September, 2008 vrn