LAW FOR ALL

A.P. Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977. - The Tahasildar, Kanigiri, the 3rd respondent herein, issued proceedings, dated 16.03.2010, informing the petitioner that the land assigned to him is required for a public purpose, viz., providing house sites to the poor and that the land would be resumed to the Government, as provided for in Condition No.17 of the Patta. The petitioner challenges the said proceedings.-Whenever any land is assigned by the Government, to either landless poor, a political sufferer or an ex-serviceman, a condition is invariably incorporated to the effect that, if the Government needs the land for any public purpose, it shall be open to them to resume it. Through successive orders issued by the Government, and the judgments rendered by this Court, the benefit of payment of ex-gratia in such an event, is provided for. Hence, the writ petition is disposed of, directing that the respondents shall pay ex-gratia to the petitioner in accordance with law, if they proceed with the resumption of the land of the petitioner.