Rongala Ramu v. State Of Andhra Pradesh

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P. NAVEEN RAO Dated:27.04.2018 Between:

Rongala Ramu, S/o. Late Pothuraju, Aged about 75 years, Cultivation, Resident of G.Kothuru Village, H/o. Gundupala Village, Golugonda Mandal, Visakhapatnam District and another.

... Petitioner And State of Andhra Pradesh, Represented by its Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat Building, Velagapudi, Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh and others.

... Respondents The Court made the following:

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.NAVEEN RAO COMMON ORDER:

Tahsildar, Golugonda, by order dated 18.07.2017, held that the transfer of property assigned violating the conditions of assignment and the provisions of A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977. Aggrieved thereby, petitioners preferred appeal before the Appellate Authority. The Revenue Divisional Officer, vide his order dated 06.03.2018, confirmed the decision of the Tahsildar.

Aggrieved thereby, petitioners preferred further appeal under Section 4-(A)(2) of the Act. Petitioners also claim that they filed application for grant of stay, pending second appeal. Alleging inaction and attempting to dispossess the petitioners, this writ petition is filed.

2.

Learned counsel for the petitioners sought an order of stay of the orders of eviction pending consideration of the second appeal. Learned counsel for the petitioners asserts that the respondent authorities cut the paddy raised on the ground and taken away the paddy.

3.

Photographs filed along with the writ petitions would disclose errection of the board by the Tahsildar, Golugonda, disclosing the subject land as Government Land. Therefore,

at this stage, Court is not inclined to grant the order, more so, when the second appeal filed by the petitioners along with stay application is pending for consideration. 4.

Thus, leaving it open to the petitioners to pursue the stay applications filed in the second appeal the Joint Collector, Visakhapatnam, is directed to consider the applications for grant of stay and pass appropriate orders as warranted by law. The decision shall be taken within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of copy of the order and shall be communicated. The Joint Collector shall take note of the fact that the time limit fixed is required to be complied, in view of the fact that petitioners claimed to have cultivated paddy and is ripe for harvesting and in fact, already, portion of the paddy is cut by the revenue authorities. 5.

Accordingly and with the above directions, these writ petitions are disposed of. Miscellaneous petitions pending consideration, if any, in these cases shall stand closed in consequence. No order as to costs.

___________________ P.NAVEEN RAO, J 27.04.2018 Note: issue C.C. by 01.05.2018 B/o.SS

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P. NAVEEN RAO 27th APRIL, 2018 Note: c.c. by 01.05.2018 B/o.SS