{"id":255086,"date":"2006-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/tasleem-bee-vs-district-collector-and-ors-on-23-february-2006"},"modified":"2017-04-12T23:26:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:56:47","slug":"tasleem-bee-vs-district-collector-and-ors-on-23-february-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/tasleem-bee-vs-district-collector-and-ors-on-23-february-2006","title":{"rendered":"Tasleem Bee vs District Collector And Ors. on 23 February, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Andhra High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Tasleem Bee vs District Collector And Ors. on 23 February, 2006<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2006 (2) ALT 569<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: V Eswaraiah<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: V Eswaraiah<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1\">ORDER<\/p>\n<p> V. Eswaraiah, J.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">1. Petitioner filed this writ petition seeking to declare the proceedings of the 2nd respondent in D1\/3255\/2001, dated 16-10-2005 as illegal and contrary to the provisions of the A.P. Escheats and Bona Vacantia Act, 1974 (for short &#8216;the Act&#8217;) and for consequential direction to the respondents not to interfere with her possession of an extent of Ac. 3.00 in survey No. 71 of Hothi (B) village, Zaheerabad Mandal, Medak District without following the procedure prescribed under law.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">2. Heard the learned Counsel appearing forthe petitioner and the learned Government Pleaderforthe respondents and perused the material on record.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_3\">3. The petitioner questions the order of the Joint Collector, Medak District made under the provisions of the Act and the rules made there under. The said order reads as follows:\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_4\">GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH<br \/>\nPROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT<br \/>\nCOLLECTOR, MEDAK AT<br \/>\nSANGA REDDY<\/p>\n<p>Present: Dr. Vani Mohan, I.A.S.,<\/p>\n<p>Proc. No.D1\/3255\/2001<\/p>\n<p>Dated 16-10-2005.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_5\">Sub: Lands- Medak District Zahirabad Mandal Hothi (B) Village Sy.No.71 extent9.26acress.Out of which an extent of Ac.6.26 Guntas to take action U\/S.8 Act, 1974 &#8211; Orders &#8211; Issue.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_6\">Read: M.R.O.\/Zahirabad L.r.No. B1789\/ 2001, dated 10-06-2005.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_7\">ORDER:\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_8\">In the circumstances reported by the Mandal Revenue Officer, Zahirabad vide reference read above, permission is hereby accorded to the Mandal Revenue Officer, Zahirabad to take over the possession of the agricultura Land admeasuring Ac.6.26 guntas in Sy.No,71 out of extent Ac.9.26 guntas at Hothi (B) village of Zahirabad Mandal, Medak District u\/s.9 of the A.P. Escheats and Bona Vacantia Act, 1974, and he is also permitted to lease out the land on Esala auction as provided in A.P. Escheats and Bona Vacanta Act, 1974 and Rules  1975 at once and intimate the date of taking over possession of the land together with C.C. of panchanama etc., and also maintain the account of lease amount.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_9\">(This has the approval of Joint Collector. Medak)<\/p>\n<p>By Order<br \/>\nSd\/-District Revenue Officer<br \/>\nMedak at Sanga Reddy<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_10\">4. A persual of the said order goes to show that no enquiry has been done and no notice has been issued giving reasonable opportunity to the petitioner before passing the said order. It is the case of the petitioner that an enquiry relating to Escheats and Bona Vacantia Act has to be made by the local off icerand in the instant case, no enquiry has been made whether the land in possession of petitioner is escheat or bona vacantia land and without conducting enquiry as contemplated under Section 7 of the Act basing on the report of the Mandal Revenue Officer only, the order has been passed. Section 8 goes to show that after conducting enquiry and if the local officer found that the said land is a escheat or bona vacantia land and is in possession of the petitioner or others claming the said property, then only, the local officer may have to institute a suit for recovery of the said amount as contemplated under Section 8 and declare that the said property is a escheat or bona vacantia and also entitled to obtain possession thereof. After obtaining the possession, it is open for the local officer to dispose of the same under the provisions of the said Act. In the instant case, without following any procedure, the impugned order has been passed for taking possession of the said agricultural land.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_11\">5. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the impugned order is set aside with a liberty to the respondents to follow due procedure prescribed under the law and take appropriate action in accordance with law.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_12\">6. Writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No order as to costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andhra High Court Tasleem Bee vs District Collector And Ors. on 23 February, 2006 Equivalent citations: 2006 (2) ALT 569 Author: V Eswaraiah Bench: V Eswaraiah ORDER V. Eswaraiah, J. 1. Petitioner filed this writ petition seeking to declare the proceedings of the 2nd respondent in D1\/3255\/2001, dated 16-10-2005 as illegal and contrary to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andhra-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tasleem Bee vs District Collector And Ors. on 23 February, 2006 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/tasleem-bee-vs-district-collector-and-ors-on-23-february-2006\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tasleem Bee vs District Collector And Ors. on 23 February, 2006 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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