IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 9093 of 2008 Between: 1 S. Pedda Veera Narappa, S/o. Peddanna, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 2 C. Shivamma, W/o. Peddy Reddy, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 3 M. Mallesu, S/o. Gurappa, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 4 S. Ch. Veera Narappa Alias K. Ch. Veera Narappa, S/o. Peddanna, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 5 U. Nagendra Reddy, S/o. Narasimha Reddy, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 6 B. Adinarayana Reddy, S/o. Nagi Reddy, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 7 K. Pothalaiah, S/o. Ramanna, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 8 T. Nagalaxmamma, W/o. Konda Reddy, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 9 K. Narayanamma, W/o. Peddanna, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 10 M. Kullayamma, W/o. Chinna Varadhappa, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 11 Jatitunbee, W/o. Ismail, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 12 Vaddi Batappa, S/o. Narayana, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 13 A. Ramanna, S/o. Naganna, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 14 M. Dubba Narayana, S/o. Chinna Kondappa, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 15 M. Adinarayana, S/o. Dubba Narayana, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 16 B. Sriramulu, S/o. Atakallappa, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 17 U. Hanumantha Reddy, S/o. Narasimha Reddy, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 18 M. Kondanna, S/o. Pedda Kondanna, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 19 M. Lakshmanna, S/o. Narayana, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 20 M. Lakshmi Devi, W/o. Gurrappa, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 21 M. Rayamma, W/o. Chanappa, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 22 T. Prabhavati, W/o. T. Linga Reddy, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 23 M. Chandrayudu, S/o.Narayana, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 24 P. Narayanamma, W/o. Naganna, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 25 M. Kondanna, S/o. Gurrappa, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 26 T. Narayanamma, W/o. Prabhakar Reddy, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. 27 C. Seenappa, S/o. Venkatappa, R/o. Regatipalli Village, Dharmavaram Mandal, Anantapur District. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Dharmavaram, Anantapuram District. 2 The Tahsildar, Dharmavaram, Anantapuram District. ...RESPONDENTS 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 issue a Writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not following the procedure established under the Law and without their being any specific authority of law contemplating to dispossess the petitioners from their respective lands as mentioned in the Writ Petition annexure-I and consequently not to alienate the lands relating to Ragatipalli Land Colonization Cooperative Society, Dharmavaram, Anantapur District, to third parties . Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.I.NAVEEN KUMAR Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: It is the case of the petitioners that they are landless poor persons and are eking out their livelihood by doing agricultural works and due to their long standing possession and eligibility pre-requisites, the respondent revenue authorities inducted them in possession of the subject matter of the lands long back and also issued faslies in their favour. Their grievance is that without following the procedure prescribed under law and without any reasons the respondents are now trying to dispossess them from the subject matter of the lands mentioned in Annexure-1 to the writ petition. Therefore they filed the present writ petition seeking directions to the respondents not to dispossess them from the said lands and also not to alienate the lands relating to Ragatipalli Land Colonization Cooperative Society, Dharmavaram, Ananthapur District to third parties. Today, when the matter came up for admission, the learned Government Pleader has produced before this Court the instructions given by the Tahsildar, Dharmavaram to the effect that the land in S.No.452-2 of Regatipalli Village admeasuring an extent of Ac.6.05 is classified A.W.land, vested with the government and on verification of village account (Adangal), it was found that no assignment has been made in favour of any body including petitioners. On inspection of the land, it is noticed that some encroachers cultivated the land and no action is contemplated for thier eviction. The learned Government Pleader submits that at present no action has been initiated to evict the petitioners from the lands in question and that if at all they want to evict the petitioners they will follow due process of law. In the circumstances, recording the above statement made by the learned Government Pleader, the writ petition is disposed of directing the respondents that in case they want to evict the petitioners they must issue notice and follow due process of law. N.V.RAMANA,J Dt.24.4.2008 msv .... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Dharmavaram, Anantapuram District. 2 The Tahsildar, Dharmavaram, Anantapuram District. 3 2CCs to GP for Revenue, High Court of A.P. Hyd. 4 2CD copies