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High Court for State of TelanganaWP/26394/2019disposed of no costs

P. Narayan Reddy And 5 Others v. The State Of Telangana And 3 Others

2019-12-05P Naveen Rao2 pages

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.NAVEEN RAO WRIT PETITION No.26394 OF 2019 Date:05.12.2019 Between:

P. Narayana Reddy, S/o. Ramanuja Reddy, Age 70 years, Occ: Retd. Govt.

Servant, R/o.H.no.126 LIGH, New Santhosh Nagar Colony, Hyderabad and others .. Petitioners And The State of Telangana, rep., through its Principal Secretary to Revenue Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad and others .. Respondents The Court made the following:

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.NAVEEN RAO WRIT PETITION No.26394 OF 2019 ORDER:

Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Government Pleader for Revenue for the respondents. 2.

Aggrieved by the order of the Tahsildar, Quthubullapur Mandal, Medchal - Malkajgiri District, the 4th respondent, dated 28.02.2019, under the Land Encroachment Act, 1905, holding that the petitioners as encroachers of land to an extent of Ac.0.35 guntas in Survey No.251 of Quthbullapur Village and Mandal, Medchal - Malkajgiri District, petitioners filed appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Malkajgiri Division, Medchal - Malkajgiri District, the 3rd respondent. Along with the said appeal, petitioners claimed to have filed application for grant of stay. Alleging that neither in the appeal nor in stay petition, orders are passed, this Writ Petition is filed.

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Since appeal was already filed and pending before the 3rd respondent, without expressing any opinion on merits, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the 3rd respondent to dispose of the appeal, as expeditiously as possible preferably within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, after affording due opportunity to the petitioners and by assigning due reasons in support of the said decision. Pending disposal of the appeal, status quo obtaining as on day shall be maintained by the parties. Pending miscellaneous petitions, if any, shall stand closed. _____________________ P. NAVEEN RAO, J Date:05.12.2019 Note:- Issue C.C. in three days.

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