IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY SIXTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:21148 of 2008 Between: G. Kondala Rao, S/o. Ankaiah, R/o. C/o. B.V. Narasimha, Mahammadguda, Keesara Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Keesara Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. 2 The District Collector and Magistrate, Prakasam District, Ongole. 3 The District Collector, Ranga Reddy District, at Lakdikapool, Spoorthi Bhavan, Hyderabad. 4 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Malkajgiri Manal. 5 The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. byits Ministry of Revenue, Secretariat Buildings, Secretariat, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MS.S.ANURADHA Counsel for the Respondents: AGP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of mandamus to direct the respondents to provide alternative land to him in lieu of the petitioner’s land acquired by the respondents for construction of Mandal Complex Buildings. Heard Ms. S.Anuradha, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue for the respondents. The petitioner is an Ex-serviceman. He was allotted Acs.4.30 cents of land in Survey No.680 of Somarajupalli, Singarayakonda Mandal, Prakasam District in 1984 under Ex- servicemen quota. He claims that he established a tiles factory on the said land, which was acquired by the State Government for construction of Mandal Complex in 1984. Since then, the petitioner has been requesting the respondents for allotment of an alternative land. A perusal of the correspondence ﬁled by the petitioner shows that there were proposals to allot the lands some where in Ranga Reddy District and an extent of Acs.2.20 guntas of land was identiﬁed in Keesara Mandal in Survey No.53/2 of Thimmaipally Village. When he moved the District Legal Services Authority, Ranga Reddy District, the Tahsildar, Keesara Mandal reported to the said authority that there is no suitable Government land available in Keesara Mandal for allotment to the petitioner to establish brick industry, as this Mandal is urbanized and most of the available Government land is covered with hillocks. In his letter, dated 14.11.2007 addressed by the District Collector, Ranga Reddy to the District Legal Services Authority, Ranga Reddy, it is stated that the petitioner belongs to Prakasam District and that there are no orders for allotment of alternative site in favour of the petitioner in Ranga Reddy District in lieu of assigned land resumed in Prakasam District. Accordingly, he rejected the petitioner’s request for allotment of land in Ranga Reddy District. The fact that the petitioner was allotted the extent of Acs.4.30 cents of land in Somarajupalli, Singarayakonda Mandal and the same was acquired is not in dispute. The ground on which the petitioner’s request for allotment of alternative land was rejected is that he is not entitled to allotment of alternative land at a place diﬀerent from the place where the acquired land is situated. Apart from that the respondents have taken the stand that no land is available in Keesara Mandal and in any event, the petitioner does not belong to the area in which he is seeking allotment. In these circumstances, I deem it appropriate to direct respondent Nos.2 and 5 to consider the case of the petitioner for allotment of an alternative land in lieu of acquisition of the land earlier allotted to him, in his native district, namely, Prakasam, initiate appropriate steps and pass appropriate orders after identiﬁcation of the suitable land in the said District. Ordered accordingly. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP.No.27641 of 2008 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 26th SEPTEMBER, 2008. kvni