THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.22724 of 2010 Date:13.09.2010 Between: Maguluri Lingamma and others ..... Petitioners AND The District Collector, Prakasam District and others. .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: Smt. K. Aruna Counsel for Respondent Nos.1 to 3: Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue Counsel for Respondent Nos.4 and 5: --. The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of respondent No.2 in not disposing of the revision case No.G/803/2009 filed on 14.09.2009 as illegal and arbitrary. I have heard Smt. K. Aruna, learned counsel for the petitioners and perused the record. Respondent No.3 is stated to have issued pattadar passbooks and title deeds in favour of respondent Nos.4 and 5 in respect of Acs.4.12 cents of land situated in Chinna Boyanapalli Village, Yerraguntapalem Mandal, Prakasam District. Feeling aggrieved by the said action, the petitioners have approached respondent No.2 with a revision petition. Respondent No.2 is stated to have entertained the same and also assigned number. The grievance of the petitioners is that respondent No.2 has not been disposing of the said revision petition. Under Section 5(5) of the Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 (for short ‘the Act’), any person who feels aggrieved by the order of the Recording Authority, either making an amendment in the record of rights or refusing to make such an amendment, is entitled to file an appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer. Under Section 9 of the Act, it is the Collector who is conferred with the revisional power to call for and examine the record of any Recording Authority, Mandal Revenue Officer or Revenue Divisional Officer pertaining to exercise of their powers under Sections 3, 5, 5-A or 5-B of the Act. On the petitioners own showing, on the decision of respondent No.3 mutating the names of respondent Nos.4 and 5 and granting pattadar passbooks in their favour, they have approached respondent No.2 with a revision petition. In the light of the above noted provisions, the petitioners are entitled to file an appeal before respondent No.2. As respondent No.2 is not empowered to exercise the revisional powers, he is, therefore, directed to convert the revision into an appeal and dispose of the same, after notice to the petitioners and respondent Nos.4 and 5, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Subject to the above directions, the writ petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, W.P.M.P. No.28983 of 2010, filed by the petitioners for interim relief, is disposed of as infructuous. ________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 13th September, 2010 GHN