ORDER :

Ravi Cheemalapati, J.

This Writ Petition has been filed by the petitioner invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for the following relief:

“…to issue writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus, declaring the proceedings in Rc.No.2828/2016/E1, dated 25.07.2018 of the District Collector, Visakhapatnam, as being arbitrary, illegal unreasonable, violative of principles of natural justice, without verification of the records, violative of Articles 14, 21 and 300-A of the Constitution of India and set aside the same with a further direction directing the District Collector not to interfere with the rights of the petitioner and their successors in interest in respect of the land in Sy.Nos.153/1, 153/3 and 154/1, admeasuring Ac.5-28 cents, Ac.4-18 cents and Ac.0-30 cents, situated at Paradesipalem village of Visakhapatnam Rural Mandal, Visakhapatnam District and not to treat the said land as Government land …..….”

2. The case of the petitioner, in brief, is that one Devara Appaiah was the pattadar of zeroyithi land in Survey Nos.153/1, 153/3 and 154/1 co-relates to old Survey Nos.183/1 and 183/3 and the settlement adangal prepared during post abolition period and all the revenue records such as 10(1) adangal, settlement fair adangal and the present adangal as well as the survey records i.e. the oldest record in the survey being the Gillmen Register also refers that these lands are private lands and Devara Appaiah was the pattadar. The assistant settlement officer also granted settlement patta under section 11(a) of the A.P.Estate (Abolition & Conversion into ryothwari) Act,1948 in favour of Devara Appaiah. It is the further case of the petitioner that he has purchased the land in Sy.Nos.153/1, 153/3 and 154/1 from the said Devara Appaiah under two registered sale deeds bearing document Nos.2533 and 2534 of 2007 and after the said purchase, when he made applications for grant of pattadar passbooks and title deeds, the Tahsildar, Visakhapatnam Rural rejected their applications on the ground that the subject land is a government land and the same is notified under Section 22-A of the REGISTRATION ACT . Aggrieved thereby, the petitioner filed W.P.No.26335 of 2008 before the High Court and the said writ petition has been later withdrawn seeking liberty to file an appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer under Section 5 (5) of the A.P. Rights in Land and Pattadar passbooks Act. Accordingly, the petitioner preferred appeal in Rc.No.6116/2009/C before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Visakhapatnam and the said appeal was allowed by the Revenue Divisional Officer vide orders dated 29.09.2009, after conducting elaborate enquiry and after verifying the entire record, giving a categorical finding that the said land is a rythwari zeroithi land but not government land and Sri Devara Appaiah is the pattadar vide patta No.163. However, the RDO directed the Tahsildar, Visakhapatnam Rural of incorporate the changes in the revenue records after obtaining permission from the District Collector, Visakhapatnam for deleting the said land from Section 22-A of REGISTRATION ACT . Later, when the petitioner approached the Tahsildar, he was directed to get