THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH WRIT PETITION NO.8267 OF 2006 Date:12.10.2009 Between:- G.Jagadeeshwar .. Petitioner And The Government of A.P., rep.by its Principal Secretary to Government, Revenue Department, A.P.Secretariat, Hyderabad and others. .. Respondents ORDER: This petition is filed seeking writ of Mandamus for a direction to respondents - authorities to take all necessary steps to effect payment of exgratia to the petitioner in lieu of the lands in Survey No.542 in an extent of Ac.5-00cs at Kolthur village of Shameerpet Mandal, which was taken from his possession in the year 2001; and to declare the action on the part of the respondents in not considering his request/representation dated 11.11.2003 as illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory and contrary to Article 21 of the Constitution of India. The case of the petitioner is that he is a landless poor person and he made a representation for assignment of land for the purpose of eking out livelihood by developing it for agriculture. Considering the representation, respondent No.4 - Mandal Revenue Officer assigned gairan land to an extent of Ac.5-00cs in survey No.542 of Kolthur village, Shameerpet Mandal vide proceedings No.B/683/92 dated 04.05.1992 and he was given the possession of the said land which he developed it by raising crops. In the year 2001, respondent No.4 dispossessed him from the said land without affording any opportunity or assigning an alternative land and the said land was subsequently, handed over to respondent No.5 authority for the purpose of development and to allot it in favour of Bio Tech Park along with adjoining piece of lands. Aggrieved with the same, he made various representations to the concerned authorities but no action has been taken by the respondents. Again, he made a representation on 11.11.2003. Since no action was taken by the respondents, he filed the present writ petition. No counter has been filed by the respondents. The case of the petitioner is that he was assigned the above land, which was barren in nature. The petitioner was given in possession of the said land and accordingly, started cultivating the said land. While so, in the year 2001, respondent No.4, without affording any opportunity to the petitioner, dispossessed him from the land in question and being aggrieved by the same, he submitted representations to various authorities but no action has been taken. Therefore, ultimately, he approached various authorities seeking Justice but nothing was done. Therefore, the petitioner made a representation on 11.11.2003 to respondent No.1 i.e., Secretary to the Government and the same was endorsed to respondent No.4 on 08.11.2004 but no action has been taken. The petitioner filed the copy of the proceedings under which he was assigned the land in question vide proceedings No.B/683/92 dated 04.05.1992 and the contention of the petitioner is that he has been given the possession of the said land and accordingly, he cultivated the land. The petitioner also filed a copy of the representation dated 11.11.2003 to the Principal Secretary to Government complaining that illegally, he was dispossessed from the land in question. Therefore, he sought for necessary action in the matter. It appears that on the said representation, an endorsement dated 08.04.2004 was made to the respondent No.4 to take immediate action. The complaint of the petitioner is that no action has been taken by respondent No.4. Therefore, no counter has been filed. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, respondent No.4 is directed to consider the case of the petitioner in respect of the land that was assigned to him by proceedings B/683/92 dated 04.05.1992 and pass necessary orders, in accordance with Law, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. The writ petition is disposed of accordingly. There shall be no order as to costs. ___________________ G. CHANDRAIAH, J 12th October, 2009 AMD