THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.22255 OF 2011 ORDER: Heard Sri A.V.Sivaiah, Learned Counsel for the petitioner, and Learned Government Pleader for Revenue (Assignment) and, at their request, the Writ Petition is disposed of at the stage of admission. The relief sought for in this Writ Petition is for a direction to the respondents not to interfere with the petitioner’s peaceful possession and enjoyment of Ac.0-50 cents of land in Sy.No.2235 of Sarvepalle Bit-II, Venkatachalam Mandal, Nellore District, and to direct the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner for assignment of the said land. It is not in dispute that the land, which is in occupation of the petitioner, is government land. It is the petitioner’s case that he falls within the ambit of a “landless poor” under the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977; and a notice, under Section 7 of the Andhra Pradesh Land Encroachment Act, 1905 (for short ‘the Act’), was issued by the second respondent in June, 2011, to which he had submitted his explanation on 01.07.2011. His grievance is that the second respondent, without passing any orders pursuant to the show cause notice, is preventing him from conducting agricultural operations over the land in question; such an act is arbitrary, and in violation of Article 14 of the Constitution of India; the respondents, having invoked the provisions of the Act, are bound to pass final orders thereupon; and, in the interregnum, the respondents cannot prevent him from cultivating the land in question. The impugned show cause notice, issued under Section 7 of the Act, calls upon the petitioner to show cause why he should not be evicted for his unauthorised possession of government land mentioned in the schedule thereto. Since a notice has already been issued under Section 7 of the Act, and the petitioner claims to have submitted his objection thereto, the second respondent shall pass final orders pursuant thereto, within a period of four weeks from today. Pending final orders being passed, the petitioner shall not be dispossessed from the land in question. Needless to state that, in case the petitioner has not submitted any reply to the show cause notice, it is open to the second respondent to pass orders, pursuant to the show cause notice, within the aforesaid period of four weeks. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J Date:08.08.2011 MD THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.22255 OF 2011 August 08, 2011 MD