Saladi Sesha Kumari, v. State Of Andhra Pradesh

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C. PRAVEEN KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.390 OF 2017 ORDER:

This Writ Petition, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, is filed by the petitioner seeking to declare the action of the respondents in entering the extent of the land of the petitioner in 1-B register as Ac.0.92 cents instead of Ac.0.95 cents situated in RS.No.94/3 of Satyawada Village, K.Gangavaram Mandal, East Godavari District, as illegal and arbitrary.

Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue for respondents. With their consent, the Writ Petition is disposed of at the stage of admission itself.

It is the case of the petitioner that without any notice and without following due process of law, the authorities have reduced the extent of land from Ac.0.95 cents to Ac.0.92 cents. Learned AGP would submit that since the entries came to be made within one year, the petitioner can make an application before the Tahasildar seeking rectification of the same, in which event, the same may be directed to be considered in accordance with law.

Having regard to the rival submissions made, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the petitioner to make an application before the Tahasildar-4th respondent seeking correction of the entries in respect of extent of land in RS No.94/3 of Satyawada Village, K.Gangavaram Mandal, East Godavari District,

within a period of two weeks from today along with necessary documents, in which event, the authorities shall pass appropriate orders within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of such an application, in accordance with law, after hearing the petitioner and aggrieved persons, if any, and taking into account all the documents filed by the petitioner along with the application. Miscellaneous petitions pending in this petition, if any, shall stand closed. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ C. PRAVEEN KUMAR, J Date: 04.01.2017 sur