1. The petitioners are the father and the daughter. The 1st respondent’s order dated 16.5.2002 is challenged. This order is affirmed in the appellate order of the 2nd respondent dated 28.10.2002. The revision there against was dismissed by the 3rd respondent’s order dated 27.9.2003 and thereafter by the 4th respondent’s order dated 16.6.2005. The facts and the legal position involved being similar to the two writ petitions, the facts in W.P.No. 10933 of 2006 are recorded for analysis.

2. The 1st respondent issued a brief and laconic show cause notice dated 16.2.2002. It reads as under: “ Whereas you are found to have assigned lands specified in the scheduled below, in contravention of the provisions of sub section (2) of section 3 of the Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977.

You are hereby directed to show cause within (15) days fifteen days of receipt of this notice as to why you should not be summarily evicted from the said land and as to why any crop or their product raised on the land/lands and any building or other construction erected or nay thing deposited there on should not be forfeited.

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