Smt. A.Vijayalakshmi W/O. Late A.Satyanarayana Murthy, v. The State Of Andhra Pradesh, Represented By Its Principal

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE CHALLA KODANDA RAM WRIT PETITION No. 44276 OF 2017 O R D E R:

The grievance of the petitioners precisely in this Writ Petition is that though they had submitted an Application in Form-VI(A) on 15.06.2017 for issuance of pattadar passbooks and title deeds in respect of the land admeasuring Acs.18.15 guntas in Survey Nos. 33, 43, 52 and 53 situated at Kandlakoya Village, Medchal Mandal & District, the 2nd respondent Tahsildar, Medchal Mandal has not acted thereon.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioners as well as learned Government Pleader for Revenue (Telangana).

It is appropriate to notice that in terms of Section 4 of the A.P. Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 1971 (for short, 'the Act'), any person acquiring, by succession or survivorship or inheritance or by partition or by way of a decree from a Court any right as owner, pattadar, mortgagee, occupant or tenant of a land, shall intimate, in writing, his/her acquisition of such right to the Mandal Revenue Officer within 90 days from the date of such acquisition and then, the Mandal Revenue Officer shall give an acknowledgment of the receipt of such intimation. Thereafter, under Section 5 of the said Act, the Mandal Revenue Officer shall determine as to whether and, if so, in what manner, the Record of Rights may be amended in consequence of the application made and carry out necessary amendments in the Record of Rights in accordance with such determination. It will also be appropriate to notice that Rules were also framed in 1989 for giving effect to the provisions of the Act and as per Rule 9, after

due completion of enquiry, the recording authority shall pass orders in respect of cases requiring change of registry necessitated by succession, when it is not disputed. Form VI (A) is prescribed as the proper form for intimation of acquisition of rights in terms of Section 4 of the Act, as per sub-rule (2) of Rule 18 of the Rules. Inasmuch as the petitioners had submitted the Application in the prescribed format i.e., Forum VI(A), I deem it appropriate to direct the 2nd respondent to consider the same, within a period of four months from today, in exercise of the powers under Section 5 of the Act and the Rules made there under and pass appropriate orders thereon, in accordance with law.

With this, the Writ Petition stands disposed of. No costs. Consequently, the miscellaneous petitions, if any shall also stand disposed of.

____________________________ CHALLA KODANDA RAM, J 26th December 2016 ksld