L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) A Full bench of this Court, desired that the question involved in these writ petitions, namely, whether an attempt to grab land, falls within the definition of land grabbing, under clause (e) of Section 2 of Andhra Pradesh Land grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 1982 (for short "the Act"), be considered by a Larger Bench. The necessity was felt, on account of the conflicting views, taken by the Division benches, in the decisions rendered in syedulla v. Special Court under A. P. Land grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 2002 (1) ALD 654 (DB), and Shalivahana Builders (P) ltd. v. S. G. Co-op. Housing Society, 2003 (2) ALD 476 (DB), on the one hand, and r. Komaraiah v. Special Court, Hyderabad, 2002 (4) ALD 579 (DB) and Bhavanarishi co-operative Housing Society v. State of a. P and others, WP Nos. 11640, 11658 and 14462/2002, on the other. In the former two cases, it was held that the definition of land grabbing , under Section 2 (e) of the Act, does not take in its fold, an attempt to grab land, and thereby, proceedings initiated, on the basis of allegations as to an attempt to grab, cannot be maintained, before Special court or Tribunal, constituted under the Act. In t

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