IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 20447 of 2008 Between: Sri Sai Lakshmi Primary Sheep Breeders Co-operative Society, Rep by its President Y.Jaya Raju, S/o. Muttaiah, R/o. Gundlapalli Village, Mattampalli Mandal, Nalgonda District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Tahsildar, Mattampalli Mandal, Nalgonda District. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer Miryalaguda, Nalgonda District. 3 The District Collector, Nalgonda District. 4 The Principal Secretary, Department of Revenue, Secretariat, Hyderabad. .....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 an order or orders more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the inaction of the respondents 1 to 3 herein not considering representations dated 14-05-2007, 24-08-2007, 21- 09-2007, 18-12-2007 and 14-03-2008 and inaction of the respondents herein in not allotting the government lands in pursuance of Letter No.E1/10210/2007 to the petitioners sheep Breeders co-operative society as illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory violation of right to life and livelihood and violation of Art.14 and 21 of constitution of India consequentially it is also prayed that this Hon'ble Court may be pleased to direct the respondents No.1 to 3 herein to allot the government land to the landless poor for gracing the sheeps and animals in Sy.No.132 to extent of 580 acres and in Sy.No.170 to an extent of 480 acres situated at Gundlapally village, and Raghunathapalem Village, Mattampally Mandal, Nalgonda District. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.V.RAGHUNATH Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled by the petitioners to declare the inaction of respondents 1 to 3 herein in considering their representations dated 14-05-2007, 24-08-2007, 21-09-2007, 18- 12-2007 and 14-03-2008 and not allotting the government lands in pursuance of Letter No.E1/10210/2007 to the petitioners sheep Breeders Co-Operative society as illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory and violative of the right to life and livelihood and violative of Art.14 and 21 of Constitution of India and consequently to direct respondents No.1 to 3 herein to allot the government land to the landless poor for grazing the sheep and animals in Sy.No.132 to extent of 580 acres and in Sy.No.170 to an extent of 480 acres situated at Gundlapally village, and Raghunathapalem Village, Mattampally Mandal, Nalgonda District. H ear d the learned counsel for the petitioners, the learned Government Pleader for Revenue and at their request the writ petition itself is taken up for ﬁnal disposal at the admission stage. The petitioner is a Sheep Breeders Cooperative Society. It is its case that nearly 100 landless poor of Raghunathapalem Village made representations to respondents 2 and 3 on 14.5.2007. 24.8.2007, 21.9.2007, 18.12.2007 requesting to assign the government land in Sy.No.132 situated at Gundlapally Village as they were using the said lands for the past 35 years for grazing the sheep and animals. Pursuant to their representations, the District Collector issued memo dated 25.9.2007 stating that pattas cannot be granted for the said lands as the same is cultivable but if a cooperative society is formed for the purpose of grazing sheep, then they will grant pattas. It is stated that pursuant to the memo, they formed a cooperative society and submitted the society particulars and list of members along with the representations before the 3rd respondent – District Collector, who directed the 1st respondent – Tahsildar to conduct enquiry into the matter and submit the proposal for the allotment of the government land. The grievance of the petitioner is that so far there is no response from the respondents and hence, they filed the present writ petition. Even though suﬃcient time is granted, the respondents have not ﬁled counter aﬃdavit. In the circumstances, instead of keeping the writ petition pending, the 3rd respondent – District Collector, Nalgonda District is directed to consider the representation of the petitioner and pass appropriate orders as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. N.V.RAMANA,J DT.15.10.2008 msv