GANGAVALLI BADARINADH Vs. GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Smt. Siva Jyothi, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of Sri Ramesh Katikaneni, learned Counsel for the Writ Petitioners and Sri Y.Subba Rao, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue.

(2.) The prayer in the Writ Petition is as follows:

(3.) The facts of the case as submitted by the Counsel for the Writ Petitioners are that the Grand-Father of the Writ Petitioner No.1 herein is the absolute owner of Ac.4.00 cents in R.S.No.319/2 of Thelladevarapalli Village, Vissannapeta Mandal, Krishna District; that, the said extent has devolved upon the father of the Writ Petitioner No.1 and Writ Petitioner No.2 by inheritance; that, the Official Respondents have occupied an extent of Ac.0-15 cents out of Ac.4-00 cents and illegally constructed a School Building without following due procedure and without paying any compensation as per law; that, they are further threatening to occupy the balance land to an extent of Ac.3-85 cents; that, this land was being used for rearing cattle and sheep by the Grand-Father of the Writ Petitioner No.1, late Sri Dannapaneni Butchayya Rao; that, this land is adjacent to the village; that, as such the Writ Petitioners are the absolute owners of Ac.4-00 cents; that, during the course of time, due to various reasons, the cattle and sheep could not be maintained and that the family of the Writ Petitioners have also shifted their place of residence to Vijayawada while being in possession and enjoyment of the said vacant land; that, the Writ Petitioners had approached the Respondents on number of occasions to find out the reason as to why they forcibly occupied the land and constructed School Building without following the due process of law, but in vain; that, as the Respondents are proposing to occupy the balance of remaining land, the Writ Petitioner No.1 was constrained to file a Suit for Injunction bearing O.S.No.82 of 2012 on the file of the Principal Junior Civil Judge, Tiruvuru; that in the said Suit (O.S.No.82 of 2012), the Official Respondents filed a Written Statement acknowledging that the Grand-Father of the Writ Petitioner No.1 late Sri Dannapaneni Butchayya Rao made an Oral Gift to the State Panchayat for the welfare of the general public, and since then the land got vested with the Government/Panchayat; that, request made by the Writ Petitioners to furnish any documentary evidence evidencing oral conveyance proved futile as the plea of the Official Respondents is that it is by Oral Gift that the Grand-Father of the Writ Petitioner No.1 has conveyanced this land to the Official Respondents for the benefit of public; that the Official Respondents have also raised an alternate and inconsistent plea that the subject land was surrendered as excess land under the A.P. Land Reform Act, 1974; and, that as there was no response to the Legal Notice dtd. 10/12/2012, the present Writ Petition has been filed.