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CASE NO.:

Appeal (crl.) 970 of 2000

PETITIONER:

V. Venkata Subbarao

RESPONDENT:

State represented by Inspector of Police, A.P.

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 12/12/2006

BENCH:

S.B. Sinha & Markandey Katju

JUDGMENT:

J U D G M E N T

S.B. Sinha, J.

Appellant herein was working as a Surveyor in the Mandal Revenue

Office. He was a military personnel.

Admittedly, a demand was made by a Mandal Revenue Officer

(MRO) of P. Bhemavaram village of Butchayyupate Mandalam in

Vishakhapatnam District for allowing P.W.3 (M. Subrahmanya Raju) to cut

and remove casurina trees. P.W.2-Amaraneni Ammarao sold the land in

question to P.W.3. He made a complaint before the Inspector of Police, Anti

Corruption Bureau alleging that he had purchased 4 acres of land with

casurina growth and the same was being objected by the MRO on the

premise that a part thereof belonged to the Government.

The MRO, allegedly, wanted determination of the said question and

restrained him from lifting any casurina growth. He met the said MRO on

the next day informing him that no part of the Government land was mixed

up with his land. Alleged