THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No :2694 of 2008 DATED:14-02-2008 BETWEEN: Smt.Sunkara Sree Venkataramamani. ..... PETITIONER AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep., by its Secretary, Revenue, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad & 3 others. .....RESPONDENTS ORDER: Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as well as the learned Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for the respondents. 2. Petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in interfering with the peaceful possession and enjoyment of the petitioner’s property admeasuring Ac.1.17 guntas and Ac.1.10 guntas situated in Sy.No.4/5 and 4/12 respectively of Ghansimiyaguda village and Gram Panchayat, Shamshabad mandal, Rangareddy District, as illegal and arbitrary 3. It is the case of the petitioner that she has purchased an extent of Ac.1.17 guntas in Sy.No.4/5 and Ac.1.10guntas in Sy.No.4/12 of Ghansimiyaguda village and Gram Panchayat, Shamshabad mandal, Rangareddy District vide registered sale deed document No.6369/07, dated 27-07-2007, and the total extent of the land Ac.2.27 guntas is in possession of the petitioner. It is stated that the said land is not a Government land or ceiling surplus land but it is a patta land and therefore without following due process of law petitioner cannot be dispossessed. It is further stated that the 2nd respondent-Tahsildar, Shamshabad mandal made an attempt to dispossess the petitioner on 09-02-2008. 4. Learned Government Pleader submits that the said land is a ceiling surplus land and it was assigned in favour of the landless poor and as there is violation of the terms and conditions of the assignment as well as the provisions of the A.P.Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 ( for brevity, ‘the Act’) respondents have contemplated to take action to resume the said land. 5. I am of the opinion that unless the lands are resumed by following due process of law under the provisions of the Act, petitioner’s possession cannot be interfered with. 6. Accordingly, Writ Petition is disposed of directing the respondents not to dispossess the petitioner without following due process of law. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________ V.ESWARAIAH,J 14th February, 2008. Tsy