The Hon'ble Sri Justice C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy Writ Petition No.21438 of 2010 Date: 06-09-2010 Between: Smt.Mallipudi Veeraraghavamma ..... Petitioner AND The District Collector, E.G.District, Kakinada and 6 others .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: Mr.K.Chidambaram Counsel for Respondent Nos.1 to 3: AGP for Revenue Counsel for respondent Nos.4 to 7: ----- The Court made the following: Order: This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of respondent Nos.1 to 3, in interfering with the petitioner’s fishing activity and directing the petitioner to close down and demolish the fish tanks situated over an extent of Ac.2-02 cents in Survey Nos.162/1, 162/1A and 162/1B of Patavala Village, Tallarevu Mandal, East Godavari District, as illegal and arbitrary. I have heard Sri K.Chidambaram, learned Counsel for the petitioner, and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue representing respondent Nos.1 to 3. The petitioner is the owner of the above-mentioned lands, which are agricultural. She claimed that she has converted the said lands into fish tanks in the month of June, 2010, and started rearing fish. Her grievance is that, without any notice, respondent Nos.2 and 3 have been interfering with her fishing activity and threatening to demolish the said tanks. After filing of this Writ Petition, the petitioner has filed WPMP.No.28218 of 2010, which is shown in the cause list but not put up by the Registry. Be that as it may, the learned Counsel for the petitioner submitted that in the affidavit filed in support of the said WPMP, it is stated that the petitioner has made an application for regularization of the conversion of her agricultural lands into fish tanks. At the hearing, it has come out that the Government issued GO.Ms.No.24, Animal Husbandry, Diary Development and Fisheries (F.II) Department, dated 09-04- 2010, which inter alia provides for regularization of fish tanks, which were in existence prior to 31-05-2010, and that the said provision is not available in respect of the tanks, which have come into existence after the above-mentioned date. On the petitioner’s own showing, she has converted her agricultural lands into fish tanks in June, 2010, and therefore, the provision of regularization has no application to her case. However, the said GO envisages consideration of the applications filed for permission to start the fish tanks. Inasmuch as the petitioner claims to have made an application for regularization of the conversion on 08-08-2010, respondent Nos.1 to 3 are directed to treat the same as the one for grant of permission and ensure that the Committee constituted under GO.Ms.No.24, dated 09-04-2010, disposes of the said application as expeditiously as possible, preferably, within a period of two months. Subject to the above direction, the Writ Petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, WPMP.No.27264 of 2010, filed by the petitioner for interim relief, is disposed of as infructuous. ___________________________ (C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J) 6th September, 2010 Note: Furnish CC in one week. (B/o) lur