ORDER : Nirmaljit Kaur, J. The petitioner herein is seeking direction to the respondents not to dispossess him from the land in question and that they may issue a Patta or regularise his land and allot him the land in the long-term possession. 2. Reply has been filed. As per the reply, the land in question falls in the periphery of Suratgarh and Khatedari rights over the land in question cannot be granted. The T.C. allotment of the petitioner was not renewed after the year 2005, nor any Lagan was recovered from the petitioner. In any case, the allotment can be made in his favour only by the competent authority who in the present case, is Sub Divisional Officer, Suratgarh as held in the case of Quarban & Anr. v. State of Raj. & Anr. (1979 WLN 730). Further, he has not approached the appropriate authority and has directly filed the writ before this Court. 3. In view of the above, this Court deems it proper to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the appropriate authority to consider the case of the petitioner for the permanent allotment as expeditiously as possible in accordance with law, preferably within a period of three months from today. The present writ petition be considered as the relevant application for the relief claimed by the petitioner. However, till as such time the application is decided, the interim order passed by this Court shall remain operative.