This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in insisting on No Objection Certificate from the Tahsildar as a condition for sanctioning the plan in respect of plot No.141, RS.No.616/12 of Satyanarayanapuram Village, Pidimgoyya Gram Panchayat, Rajahmundry Rural, East Godavari District, as illegal and arbitrary.

I have heard Sri P.R.K. Amarendra Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri G. Elisha, learned Standing Counsel for respondent No.1.

The petitioner averred that he is in possession of 2162 sq. yards of land in R.S. No. 616/12 of the above mentioned village. According to him, R.S. No. 616 corresponds to Old Survey No. 327 comprising Acs.87.87 cents. Some of the land owners filed O.S. No. 130 of 1977 when the entire land was claimed by the Revenue department and the said suit was decreed by declaring that the Government was the owner of only Acs.29.03 cents and that the said judgment was confirmed in appeals by this Court and the Supreme Court. It is the further case of the petitioner that in the year 1994, some of the land owners have approached the Director of Town and Country Planning, Government of Andhra Pradesh for