IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM WRIT PETITION NO : 12872 of 2009 Between: Chodavarapu Marayamma, W/o. Chodavarapu Naga Malleswara Rao, R/o. Kavuluru Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal, Krishna District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The District Collector, Krishna, Krishna District. 2 Revenue Divisional Officer Ibrahimpatnam, Krishna District. 3 Tahsildar, Ibrahimpatnam, Krishna District. 4 Village Revenue Officer, Kodapalli Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal, Krishna 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 a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to consider petitioners case for granting patta for the land admeasuring Acs. 3-75 cents in Sy.No. 10/1B of Kavuluru Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal, Krishna District by declaring that their interference with petitioner's possession and enjoyment of the land of an extent of Acs. 3-75 in R.S No. 45 of Kavuluru Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal as illegal and arbitrary and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:SMT.K.SESHARAJYAM Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORAL ORDER: The petitioner is an admitted encroacher on a public property i.e. Government land of an extent of Ac. 3.75 cents in S.No. 10/1B of Kavuluru village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal, Krishna District. According to the petitioner, the encroachment is 10 years old and himself and his family developed the land by expending considerable resources and labour and brought the land to cultivation, is the claim. While the petitioner’s application for assignment of this land is pending, the respondents are threatening to dispossess the petitioner by physical employment of State force and without following the due process of law, is the complaint. In the circumstances, after hearing the learned Government Pleader for Revenue, the writ petition is disposed directing the respondents to forbear from dispossessing the petitioner except by following the due process of law under the provisions of the A.P. Land Encroachment Act 1908 or any other appropriate law. No order as to costs. ___________________ GODA RAGHURAM,J 27.7.2009. KRB. THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM WRIT PETITION No. 12872 of 2009. Dated: 27.7.2009.