IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 15380 of 2008 Between: 1 Gompa Suryaprakasha Rao S/o.late Dali Naidu C/o. Prakash Metal Industries, Near Reading Room, Visakhapatnam. 2 Gompa Mangala Chandrasekhara Rao S/o.late Dali Naidu C/o. Prakash Metal Industries, Near Reading Room, Visakhapatnam. 3 Gompa Varaha Venkata Dharma Satya Bhanu S/o.late Dali Naidu C/o. Prakash Metal Industries, Near Reading Room, Visakhapatnam. Rep. by his G.P.A. Holder G.M.Chandrasekhara Rao. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Revenue Court, under the A.P.Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1956, Visakhapatnam. 2 The Special Deputy Tahasildar (Inams) Visakhapatnam. 3 Vedula Govinda Sharma S/o.late Lakshminarasimham M.R. Government Sanskrit College, Resident of Dasannapeta, Vizianagaram. ...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 appropriate writ, order or direction more particularly one in the form of Writ of Certiorari calling for the records in Rc.No.2169/08/C dt. 05.06.2008 on the ﬁle of the ﬁrst Respondent and quash the same declaring that the impugned order was passed arbitrarily, without jurisdiction and against the principles of natural justice and pass such other and necessary orders. Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.D.V.REDDY Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: Aggrieved by the letter dated 5.6.2008 addressed by the Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer, Visakhapatnam, the 1 st respondent herein to various authorities of Greater Visakhapatnam requesting them not to entertain any transactions and take any developmental activities in the lands covered by T.D.No.3072, S.No.7/4 part and 7/4A part of Narava Village of Pendurthi Mandal which are the subject matter of appeal before him till further orders, the present writ petition is filed by the petitioners. Pursuant to the notice issued by this Court on 17.7.2008, the unoﬃcial respondent No.3 is served and he entered appearance. Today, when the matter is taken up, it is brought to the notice of this Court by the learned counsel for respondent No.3 that the appeal ﬁled by the petitioner before the 1st respondent under Section 7(2) of the A.P.Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1956 against the orders passed in AIP No.1376/03 dated 29.4.2008 by the Special Deputy Tahsildar, (Inams) under Section 7(1) of the Act granting ryotwari patta in favour of Gompa Surya Prakasha Rao and two others in respect of the subject matter of land is still pending before the 1st respondent and, in the meanwhile, the petitoner has ﬁled an application before the Urban Development Authorities for granting lay out and plotting. Therefore, until the appeal ﬁled by the petitioner and two others is ﬁnally disposed of, the petitioners cannot change the nature of the land. The learned Government Pleader for Revenue submits that since the appeal ﬁled by the petitioners before the 1st respondent is still pending, instead of this court going into the merits of the matter, the appellate authority may be directed to dispose of the appeal itself expeditiously, for which course of action, the learned counsel for the petitioners as also the learned counsel for the 3rd respondent agreed. In the circumstances, without going into the merits of the matter, the writ petition is disposed of directing the 1st respondent to dispose of the appeal ﬁled by the writ petitioners as expeditiously as possible, preferably, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and till such time, it is undertaken by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners will not alienate, change the nature of the land or create third party interests over the subject matter of land. N.V.RAMANA,J DT.17.9.2008 msv .... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Revenue Court, under the A.P.Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1956, Visakhapatnam. 2 The Special Deputy Tahasildar (Inams) Visakhapatnam. 3 2CCs to Govt.Pleader for Revenue, High Court of A.P. Hyd 4 2CD copies