At the interlocutory stage, the Writ Petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned Counsel for the parties.

This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of respondent No.3, in interfering with the petitioner’s possession over the land admeasuring Acs.13-20 cents in R.S.No.182 of Gullapudi Village, Musunoor Mandal, Krishna District, as illegal and arbitrary.

In his affidavit, the petitioner stated that his father late Paramanandam was inducted into possession of the land admeasuring Acs.17-50 cents in Old Survey No.182 in Gullapudi Village, Musunoor Mandal, Krishna District, on payment of rent @ Rs.0-8-0 Anas per acre by the then Mirzapur Zamindar; that on payment of an amount of Rs.875/- in total as nazarana, a patta was granted in favour of his father vide patta No.466, dated 07-07-1946; that the entire land is a single block and was full of shrubs and jungle growth; and that his father had made the said land fit for cultivation and continued to cultivate the same till his death in the year 1986. The petitioner further averred that after abolition of estates under the Estates Abolition Act, 1948 (for short ‘the 1948 Act