HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY Writ Petition No.16945 of 2008 Date: August 1, 2011 Between: Sri Surya Gangadhara Agro Farms, Kondakavur village, Narasaraopet Mandal, Guntur District, represented By its Managing Partner Mullapudi Srinivas … Petitioner And The District Collector, Guntur, Guntur District and others … Respondents Order: This writ petition is filed questioning order dated 26.05.2008 passed in Case No.93/2007 by the 2nd respondent-Revenue Divisional Officer, Narasaraopet, Guntur District, dismissing the appeal filed by the petitioner under the provisions of the A.P.Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (for short, ‘the Act’). Petitioner is a partnership firm registered under the Indian Partnership Act, 1932. It has purchased a total extent of Ac.86.75 cents of land covered by Sy.Nos.286/2, 288 and 283 of Kakani village, Narasaraopet Mandal, Guntur District under different registered sale deeds in the year 1999. On the ground that the said land was allotted to landless poor persons and the petitioner has purchased the same in violation of the provisions under the Act, 3rd respondent-Tahsildar, Narasaraopet Mandal, passed order dated 03.04.2007 vide proceedings Rc.No.1068/2006-A/Kakani/45, for eviction of the petitioner from the said land. As against the same, petitioner filed an appeal before the 2nd respondent- Revenue Divisional Officer, Narasaraopet Mandal, who, by the impugned order dismissed the appeal and confirmed the order of the 3rd respondent-Tahsildar. Although validity of the order of the 2nd respondent-RDO is questioned in this writ petition; when the matter is taken up, learned counsel for the petitioner states that the petitioner intends to approach the revisional authority challenging the impugned order. Under Section 4-B of the Act, against the order of an appellate authority, revision lies to the Joint Collector. As the remedy of revision is available under the statute itself and in view of the statement made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, this writ petition is disposed of permitting the petitioner to file a revision petition against the order impugned before the revisional authority, i.e. the Joint Collector, within six weeks from today. If any such revision is filed within the said time, the revisional authority shall consider the same on merits without raising any objection with regard to limitation and pass appropriate orders. Further, there shall be a direction to the respondents to maintain status quo with regard to possession of the land in question for a period of eight weeks from today. It is clarified that if no revision petition as indicated above is filed it is open to the respondents to proceed further in pursuance of the impugned order. No order as to costs. ____________________ (R.SUBHASH REDDY, J) August 1, 2011 MRR