HON’BLE SHRI G.S. SINGHVI, THE CHIEF JUSTICE WRIT PETITION NO. 16885 OF 1996 BETWEEN G. Gowramma ………Petitioner And The District Collector, Kurnool & others ………Respondents :: O R D E R:: Counsel for Petitioner : Shri A. Chandraiah Naidu Counsel for Respondents : Government Pleader for Social Welfare Dated: 08.06.2006 This is a petition for quashing notification dated 29.02.1996 issued by District Collector, Kurnool under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’). The principal ground on which the petitioner has questioned the acquisition of her land measuring Ac.1.11 cents comprised in survey No.786/5 of Gadiralla village, Devanakonda mandal, Kurnool district is that the enquiry under Section 5A of the Act could not have been dispensed with for the purpose of acquiring the land for providing house sites to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and weaker sections of the society. At the hearing, learned Government pleader for Land Acquisition gave out that the respondents have decided not to pursue the acquisition proceedings. In view of the statement made by the learned Government Pleader, the writ petition is disposed of as infructuous. G.S.SINGHVI, CJ ksld 08.06.2006