IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 6811 of 2005 Between: Banda Ramulu, S/o. Late Sri Balaiah, Mailardevpally Village, Rajendranagar Mandal, R.R.District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Joint Collector, R.R.District at Hyderabad. 2 The Deputy Director, Survey and Land Records, at Hyderabad. 3 The M.R.O., Rajendranagar Madal, Rajendranagar,R.R.District ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.M.V.DURGA PRASAD Counsel for the Respondents : AGP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of Mandamus to declare the inaction of respondent No.1 in disposing of the application ﬁled by the petitioner for correction of record of rights. The petitioner claims that he is the owner of Acs.22.29 guntas of land comprised in Survey Nos.95 to 101 of Mailardevpally Village, Rajendranagar Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. It is his case that during the resurvey, the said land was assigned new survey numbers, namely; 134, 137, 138, 142 to 144 and 146, but following the said resurvey, the extent of land is shown as Acs.17.00 guntas only as against the extent of Acs.22.29 guntas. On noticing the same, the petitioner approached respondent No.1 for correction of revenue record by application dated 27-09-2003, which was taken on ﬁle and assigned proceedings No.D5/9393/2003 by respondent No.1. The grievance of the petitioner is that so far, respondent No.1 has not disposed of the said proceedings. No counter-affidavit has been filed by the respondents. Heard Sri M.V.Durga Prasad, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue and perused the record. Under Section 3(3) of the Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 (for short “the Act”), if any person is aﬀected by an entry in the record of rights, he may apply to the recording authority for rectiﬁcation within one year from the date of notiﬁcation published in Section 3(2) of the Act. The decision taken on such application shall be ﬁnal subject to the provisions of Section 9 of the Act. Under Section 9 of the Act, the Collector is conferred with the revisional power to be exercised either suo motu or on an application to call for and examine the record of any recording authority, Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer or Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer under Sections 3, 5, 5-A and 5-B in respect of any record of rights prepared or maintained to satisfy himself as to the regularity, correctness, legality or propriety of any decision taken, order passed or proceedings made in respect thereof. The Collector is empowered under the said provision to modify, annul or reverse the decision of the lower authority or remit the matter for reconsideration. In the instant case, though the application ﬁled by the petitioner, which was taken on ﬁle by respondent No.1, shows that the same was ﬁled under Section 15(5) of the ROR Act, it has come out during the hearing that mentioning of the said provision is incorrect and in the nature of the claim made by the petitioner, his application shall be traceable to Section 9 of the Act. In any event, respondent No.1, having taken on ﬁle the said proceedings, is under obligation to dispose of the same in accordance with law. Accordingly, the writ petition is allowed. Respondent No.1 is directed to dispose of the application ﬁled by the petitioner, which is registered as proceedings No.D5/9393/2003, within a period of eight (8) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 29th August, 2008 vrn