IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 16828 of 2008 Between: P.Vittal S/o.Sri Shankara Rao Resident of Gulla (B), Jukkal Mandal Nizamabad District ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep.by its District Collector, Nizamabad 2 The Assistant Director (Survey & Land Records) Nizamabad,Nizamabad District 3 The Tahsildar, Jukkal Mandal, Jukkal, Nizamabad 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 an appropriate writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the inaction of the respondents in not conducting the survey for demarcation of the boundary between Sy.No.43 of Gulla (B) village,and Sy.No.50 of Gundur village as illegal, null and void and consequently direct the respondents 2 and 3 to demarcate the boundaries between the two villages immediately and to pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.K.DURGA PRASAD Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following: THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.16828 OF 2008 ORAL ORDER: The petitioner states that he is an ex-Serviceman, and that he was granted patta in respect of an extent of Ac.5.00 cents of agricultural land in Survey No.43 of Gulla (B) Village, Jukkal Mandal, Nizamabad District, under ex-Servicemen quota, by the 3rd respondent, namely the Tahsildar, Jukkal Mandal. That he having been assigned the said land, spent huge amounts and developed it and made it cultivable. The petitioner states that the land assigned to him is situated within the limits of Gulla (B) village, and as disputes arose between him and his neighbour, whose lands are situated in Sy. No. 50 of Gundur Village, both of them instituted separate civil suits for injunction, which are pending adjudication before the competent Civil Court. While so, the petitioner states that he made several requests to the respondents herein for conducting survey of the land in question as well as the land of his neighbour, and ﬁx boundaries of the lands of the petitioner and his neighbour, which are situated in two diﬀerent villages, and in this regard, the petitioner states that the third respondent-Tahsildar submitted a detailed report to the ﬁrst respondent-Collector for necessary action, and also addressed a letter dated 29.09.2007 to the second respondent- Assistant Director (Survey and Land Records) to ﬁnalize the village boundary disputes, as early as possible, so as to avoid law and order problems, but so far no action thereon had been taken by the respondents. Hence he filed the present writ petition. Heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue for the respondents. A perusal of the material ﬁled along with the writ petition would disclose that the land in Sy. No. 43, which was assigned to the petitioner, falls in Gulla (B) village, while the land in Sy. No. 50 which falls in Gundur village belongs to the neighbour of the petitioner. As the lands of the petitioner and his neighbour are contiguous and falling in two diﬀerent villages, there are boundary disputes between them. It is the case of the petitioner that he made several requests to the respondents to demarcate the land in question and ﬁx the boundaries thereof to avoid any law and order problem, and that the third respondent-Tahsildar also addressed a letter dated 29.09.2007 to the second respondent-Assistant Director (Survey and Land Records), requesting him to visit the village and take up immediate steps to demarcate the land in question and ﬁnalize the village boundaries, as early as possible, to avoid law and order problem, but no action had been taken by the respondents. Having regard to the fact that the third respondent-Tahsildar had already addressed the second respondent-Assistant Director (Survey and Land Records), to demarcate the boundaries of the villages, so as to avoid law and order problem, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition at the stage of admission with the following directions: The second respondent-Assistant Director (Survey and Land Records), Nizamabad, is directed to demarcate the land in question and ﬁx the boundaries thereof, duly issuing prior notices to all the aﬀected parties, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. ______________ N.V.RAMANA, J. Date: 04.08.2008 VGSR