HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 25823 OF 2010. DATED 7th February, 2011. BETWEEN Ravva Muthyalamma and ors …Petitioners And State of AP, rep. by its District Collector, WG District at Eluru and ors. ….Respondents. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 25823 OF 2010. ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed seeking a Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of respondents 1 to 4 in seeking to cancel the D-Form pattas granted to the petitioners without following the due procedure established under the law, is illegal and arbitrary. It is submitted by the learned Counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners are the Scheduled Tribes and they were assigned land to an extent of Ac.0.50 cents each in Sy.No.126/P of Koyarajahmundry village by way of D-form pattas following the due procedure contemplated under Standing Order 15 of Andhra Pradesh Revenue Board Standing Orders. It is further stated that the petitioners have brought the land assigned to them under cultivation. It is the grievance of the petitioners that respondents 1 to 3 are taking active steps to cancel the D-form pattas issued to them, without following due procedure established under law. Fourth respondent filed a counter affidavit stating that the subject land in R.S.No. 126 admeasuring Ac.4.00 cents situate at Koyarajahmundry was purchased by her father-in- law through a registered sale deed in the year 1959 from its original owner and now her mother-in-law is in possession of the subject land. It is stated that questioning the eviction notice dated 30.12.1999 issued against the petitioner by the Special Deputy Collector, the fourth respondent filed W.P.No.15213 of 2000, which was allowed by this Court through order dated 13.6.2007 and set aside the eviction order issued against the petitioner in respect of the subject land. It is further submitted that pursuant to the representation filed by the fourth respondent , a detailed enquiry was conducted by the Revenue Divisional Officer, who vide proceedings in Roc.No.435/2010, dated 14.06.2010, cancelled the D-form pattas issued in favour of the petitioners and restored the possession of the subject land in favour of the petitioners. A copy of the order dated 14.06.2010 is also produced before this Court. The learned Assistant Government Pleader appearing for the respondents 1 to 3 does not dispute the same. In view of the cancellation of the D.form pattas issued in favour of the petitioners vide order dated 14.06.2010, this Writ Petition has become infructuous. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. However, it is left open for the petitioners, if so advised, to question the cancellation order dated 14.06.2010 before appropriate forum. There shall be no order as to costs. ------------------------------------ -- JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA Dated 7th February, 2011. Msnro