IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 16982 of 2008 Between: 1 Mohd. Khaja, S/o. Mohd. Pasha, R/o. H.No. 27-174, Farooqnagar Village and Mandal, Mahaboobnagar District. 2 Mohd. Ashwaq, S/o. Mohd. Ali, R/o. Road No. 3, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER(S) AND 1 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Mahaboobnagar at Mahaboobnagar. 2 The Tahsildar/Mandal Revenue Officer, Farooqnagar, Mahaboobnagar District. 3 Sri Abdul Kayum, S/o. Abdul Rajak, R/o. Chetanpalli Village, Farooqnagar Mandal, Mahaboobnagar District. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue an appropriate writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Certiorari by declaring the proceedings passed by the 2nd respondent vide G/6855/2005/G/401/2006, dated 22-8-2006 and the proceedings passed by the 1st respondent in Case No. B/ROR/4991/2007, dated 20-6-2008, as arbitrary, illegal and void abinitio and without jurisdiction and also contrary to the provisions of AP Rights in land and pattedar pass books Act (ROR Act) and set aside the same and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.J.ASHVINI KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.16982 OF 2008 ORAL ORDER: The petitioners state that they have purchased the lands to an extent of Ac.0.20 guntas each in survey No.758 of Chetanpally Village, Farooqnagar Mandal, Mahaboobnagar District, under two registered sale deeds dated 19.04.2006 and thereafter they approached the second respondent-Tahsildar for mutating their names in the revenue records and for issuance of pattadar passbooks and title deeds in their favour in respect of the said lands. They further state that the second respondent-Tahsildar without issuing any notice or giving an opportunity has issued the proceedings dated 22.08.2006 in favour of the unoﬃcial third respondent herein by regularizing the private sale deed 15.01.1999 in respect of the land to an extent of Ac.1.00 in the above said survey number. As against the said proceedings, the petitioners state that they preferred appeal before the ﬁrst respondent-Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer and the ﬁrst respondent by impugned proceedings dated 20.06.2008 dismissed the said appeal on the ground that the civil suit ﬁled by them under Speciﬁc Relief Act, 1963 is still pending consideration and after ﬁling the said suit they ﬁled the petition before the Tahsildar, Farooqnagar Mandal, for transfer of lands in question in their names. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioners ﬁled the present writ petition. When the matter is taken up for admission today, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue submits that as against the impugned orders dated 20.06.2008 passed by the ﬁrst respondent-Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer, an eﬀective alternative remedy of revision lies under Section 9 of the A.P. Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 before the Joint Collector and without availing the said remedy the petitioners have directly approached this Court and ﬁled the present writ petition. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners agreed to avail the remedy of revision before the Joint Collector concerned. In view of the agreed stand taken by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners, without going into the merits of the matter, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition at the stage of admission with the following directions: The petitioners are directed to avail the alternative remedy of revision available to them under Section 9 of the A.P. Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 before the Joint Collector concerned along with stay application as against the impugned orders dated 20.06.2008 passed by the ﬁrst respondent- Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, and on ﬁling such revision along with stay application, the Joint Collector concerned shall consider either the stay application or the main revision itself and pass appropriate orders thereon in accordance with law expeditiously. Till such time, status quo obtaining as on today shall be maintained. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. ______________ N.V.RAMANA, J. Date: 06.08.2008. VGSR