JUDGMENT

S.V.N. BHATTI, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. On 06.02.1950, a Gazette Notification under Section 7(1) of the Hyderabad Forest Act, 1326 Fasli [Corresponds to 1916 AD.], was issued proposing to include land in an extent of 787 Acres in Survey No. 81 of Kalvalanagaram Village as a reserve forest. The Joint Collector, Khammam, vide Order dated 19.05.2003, rejected the Appellants’ claim to exclude the land in Survey No. 81, in an extent of 600 Acres, Kalvalanagaram Village, Pinapaka Mandal, Khammam District (“Subject Matter”), from the proposed declaration as forest land/reserve forest. The Appellants questioned the Order dated 19.05.2003 in Writ Petition No. 19107 of 2003 in the then High Court of Judicature, Andhra Pradesh, at Hyderabad.

The Appellants prayed for the following reliefs:

2.1 To issue a Writ of Mandamus declaring the order in Case No. B2-6359/87 dated 19.05.2003 of the Joint Collector, Khammam, as illegal; and

2.2 Consider the claims and rights of the Appellants in respect of the land in Survey No. 81, in an extent of 600 Acres, Kalvalanagaram Village, Pinapaka Mandal, Khammam District, under Sections 10 and 11 of the Hyderabad Forest Act, 1355F [Corresponds to 1945 AD.].