N. Y. HANUMANTHAPPA, J.

( 1 ) THIS Writ Appeal raises a question regarding the scope and ambit of the andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977 (A. P. Act. No. 9 of 1977), hereinafter referred to as "the Act". One Mr. Dasari obulesu was assigned with government land of Ac. 4-16 cents in S. No. 524-2 situated at Nyamaddala Village of Anantapur District on 21-10-1955. He died later. On the ground of violation of conditions of grant, the same was resumed by the government on 6-7-1982, and was re-assigned to the 1st respondent. In the year 1988, an application was filed by the widow of late Dasari Obulesu, namely, Smt. Dasari Anjinamma, that the assignment was made in favour of her husband; that after his death, she succeeded to his rights; that when she sought for mutation of her name in the revenue records, she came to know that the land was resumed, but nevertheless, the land had been in her possession and that herself and her sons and daughters being heirs are entitled for the said properties and that the daughters having been married, the sons are living with her and requested for the transfer of the said land in her favour duly cancelling the subsequent a

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