THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.31493 of 2010 Date: 15.12.2010 Between: Avula Erraiah ..... Petitioner AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, represented by Tahsildar, Mancherial .....Respondent Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri P.V. Srinivas Rao Counsel for Respondent: Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue The Court made the following: ORDER: The short and simple grievance of the petitioner in this writ petition is that the Tahsildar, Mancherial, shown as representing the respondent in this writ petition has not acted on his application dated 05.07.2010 filed for mutation in respect of land admeasuring Acs.2.20 guntas in survey No.246 of Garmilla Revenue Village, M.R. Mancherial, Adilabad District. According to the petitioner, he has purchased the abovementioned property in the year 2003 and that he has filed the abovementioned application stated to have been received by the respondent on 15.07.2010. Needless to observe that if any application for correction of the entries in the record of rights is received by the Recording Authority, he is bound to make an enquiry under Section 5(3) of the Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 1971 (for short ‘the Act’) and take appropriate decision under Section 5(1) of the Act. Therefore, the Writ Petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondent to consider and take appropriate decision on the application of the petitioner, if not already done, in accordance with Section 5(1) read with Section 5(3) of the Act within a period of one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.40072 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 15th December, 2010 GHN