THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NOS.18748 AND 18749 OF 2008 DATED 14TH FEBRUARY, 2011 BETWEEN Salahuddin Siddiqui and another. …Petitioner And The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and another. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NOS.18748 AND 18749 OF 2008 C O M M O N O R D E R These writ petitions are filed challenging the notices issued under Section 10(5) of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (for brevity, ‘the Act of 1976’). The matter is squarely covered by my order in ABDUL SAYEED V/s. THE GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP. BY ITS SECRETARY, REVENUE DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, HYDERABAD[1]. The petitioners herein claim title to the land in their possession under one Smt.Batul Fatima. Admittedly, she died in the year 2000. However, the authorities under the Act of 1976 initiated proceedings against her by issuing a notice under Section 6(2) of the Act of 1976 only in the year 2006, long after her death. It is on the basis of these void proceedings instituted against a dead person that the impugned notices under Section 10(5) of the Act of 1976 were issued. Founded on proceedings which were void ab initio, having been instituted against a dead person, the consequential notices under Section 10(5) are equally unsustainable in law. The Writ Petitions are accordingly allowed setting aside the impugned notices issued under Section 10(5) of the Act of 1976. No order as to costs. ---------------------------- SANJAY KUMAR, J. 14TH FEBRUARY, 2011. PGS/VGSR [1] W.P.Nos.18751/2008 & batch, dated 09.02.2011