Valluri Veerabhadra Rao v. The State Of Andhra Pradesh

Date :20.4.2018 Between:

Valluri Veerabhadra Rao S/o Valluri Venkatachalam 59 years R/o 8-3-24/1, Palavari street, Gandhi nagar, Kakinada Petitioner And The State of A P Rep by its Principal Secretary, Revenue (Registration) Department, Secretariat, Guntur and others Respondents The Court made the following:

ORAL ORDER:

Petitioners claim to be owners of various extents of land in different survey numbers mentioned in paragraph 2 of the affidavit filed along with writ petition in Kona Forest village, Thondangi mandal of East Godavari district. Petitioners are aggrieved by classifying the entire land in the village as "Gayalu" and including the same in the list of prohibited properties and not entertaining the deeds of conveyance in respect of same. Petitioners claim that on 12.7.2017 representation was made to the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration and to the District Collector praying to correct the revenue records and delete the subject properties from the list of prohibited properties. Alleging inaction, this writ petition is filed.

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As held by the Full Bench of this Court in Vinjamuri Rajagopala Chary v. State of Andhra Pradesh1, if petitioners are aggrieved by inclusion of their properties in prohibited list under Section 22-A of the Act, 1908, they have to file application(s) before the competent authority, in the instant case the District Collector, to delete the properties claimed to have been owned by them from the list of prohibited properties. Though, petitioners claim to have made such representation, but there is no proof of acknowledgment, therefore it cannot be said that the District Collector is negligent in not acting on the representation made by petitioners. Thus, no direction as sought for can be granted at this stage. Petitioners are granted liberty to make application(s) to the District Collector ventilating their grievances with supportive material and as and when such application(s) is/are received by the District Collector, the District Collector shall consider and pass appropriate orders as warranted by law within a period of eight weeks 1 2016 (1) ALT 570 (F.B)

from the date of receipt of such application(s) by assigning due reasons in support of his decision.

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Accordingly, writ petition is disposed of. No costs. Miscellaneous petitions, if any pending, are closed. __________________ P NAVEEN RAO,J DATE: 20-04-2018 TVK

Date :20.4.2018