HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA W. P. NO : 15382 of 2009 DATED: 17.09.2009 Between: Muttuswamy Murugesan ..... PETITIONER AND 1. Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation 2. The Asst. City Planner 3. The Eastern Power Distribution Co. Ltd. .....RESPONDENT(S) O R D E R:- The petitioner asserts that he is the absolute owner and possessor of land in an extent of Ac.0.84 cents in Sy.No.113/34 situated at Chinamushidiwada village, Pendurthi Mandal, having succeeded to the same from his father. Apart from that land, the petitioner states that his father, was also in possession of tank poramboke land in an extent of Ac. 0.50 in Sy. No. 116, situated adjacent to his land, and that his father erected a fence around the land and constructed a room for the watchman, and that after him, he is in possession of the same, and in all, they have been in possession of the same for the last 28 years by paying taxes to the Government regularly. The petitioner states that he made representation dated 12.7.2003 to the District Collector for allotment of the said land on payment of Market value, and while his representation is pending, it is the case of the petitioner that on 6.7.2009, the 2nd respondent and his staff, without issuing any notice, have highhandedly trespassed into his land and demolished the shed while the 3rd respondent disconnected power supply to the land, and now they are trying to dispossess him from his land in an extent of Ac.0.84 cents. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned Standing Counsel for Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation appearing for respondent Nos.1 and 2 and the learned Standing Counsel for the 3rd respondent. According to the own admission of the petitioner, his father and after him, he is in encroachment of tank poramboke land in an extent of Ac.0.50 cents in Sy.No.116, which is situated adjacent to his land. Admittedly, the petitioner has no title to the said land. The application made by the petitioner to the District Collector for allotment of the said land at market value, is pending. In the absence of any orders passed by the District Collector on his representation, and the land in question in which the petitioner erected a room for watchman, being a government land, no exception can be taken to the action of the respondents in demolishing the room constructed by the petitioner therein. Hence, the writ petition fails and the same is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ______________ N.V.RAMANA, J 17th September, 2009 bcj