IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 25366 of 2000 Between: B.Kannippa Mudaliar, S/o Bangaru Mudaliar, R/o Pudupet, Nagari Mandal, Chittoor District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Mandal Revenue Officer, Nagari Mandal, Chittoor District. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Chittoor District. 3 The Collecter, Chittoor District. 4 The Government of A.P., Rep by its Secretary, Department of Industries, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 5 A.P.Industrial Infracutre Corporation Ltd., Zonal Office Industrial Estate, Rep by its Zonal Manger, Tirupati R5 is impleaded as per the Court order in wpmp 30870/02 dt 16.12.02 ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:SRI.T.LAKSHMINARAYANA Counsel for Respondents 1 to 4: GP FOR REVENUE Counsel for Respondent No.5 :None appeared The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is filed for a Writ of Mandamus to set aside proceedings dated 20-07-1999 of respondent No.1 in so far as the petitioner’s agricultural lands situated in Survey Nos.46-1A to 46-9A to the extent of Acs.2.51 cents of Keellapattu Village, Nagari Mandal, Chittoor District are concerned. Sri T.Lakshminarayana, learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted that since the petitioner has got an effective statutory remedy of appeal under Section 4-A of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (for short ‘the Act’), the writ petition may be disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to avail the said remedy. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed with liberty to the petitioner to avail the remedy of appeal under Section 4-A of the Act. The petitioner is permitted to file appeal along with stay application, within four weeks from today, and for a period of four weeks, there shall be an order of status quo with regard to the possession of the land in question. Dismissal of this writ petition shall not be construed as the Court pronouncing on the merits of the case. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Dated 3rd July, 2008 Note: Issue C.C in three days vrn