HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.4714 of 2010 Between: Mamillapalli Chinna Chandrayudu and another. ..... PETITIONERS AND The Revenue Divisional Officer, Anantapur, Anantapur District & others. .....RESPONDENT(S) HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No. 4714 of 2010 ORDER: Heard Sri K.Srinivas, learned counsel for the petitioners, and the learned Government Pleader for Land Acquisition, and at their request the writ petition itself is being disposed of at the stage of admission. The petitioners herein claim to have purchased an extent of Ac.10.92½ cents of land in Sy.Nos. 406/1 and 404/1 of Marruru Village, Rapthadu Mandal, in the year 1991 and to have got the sale deed registered in their favour. They claim to be in peaceful possession and enjoyment of the said property. The petitioners land of Ac.1.98 cents in old Sy.No.406/1 was acquired, by award No.11 of 2007 dated 18.11.2007, for laying a four-lane road under the National Roads Act, 1956. It is the petitioners’ case that, while an extent of Ac.1.98 cents was acquired by the respondents, they were interfering with another extent of Ac.1.00, in Sy.Nos. 406/1 and 404/1 of Marruru Village, without initiating proceedings for acquisition of the said land. The petitioners would contend that respondents 2 and 3 were trying to dispossess them from their lands and were digging their lands without authority of law. When the matter came up on 02.03.2010, the Learned Government Pleader for Land Acquisition sought time to obtain instructions. Today, the learned Government Pleader, on instructions, would submit that, except for an extent of Ac.1.98 cents of land hitherto belonging to the petitioners in old Sy.No. 406/1 of Marruru Village, which was acquired by award No.11 of 2007 dated 18.11.2007, land acquisition proceedings were not contemplated for any other extent of the land belonging to the petitioners. Learned Government Pleader would submit that while possession of the land, for which the award was passed, has been taken over by the respondents the allegations that they were interfering with another extent of land belonging to the petitioners is without basis. Sri K.Srinivas, learned counsel for the petitioners, would dispute this assertion and draw attention of this Court to several photographs in support of his submission that the respondents were interfering with another extent of Ac.1.00 belonging to the petitioner. It is wholly unnecessary for this Court to examine this question as ends of justice would be met if the respondents were directed not to interfere with the petitioners’ land, other than the extent of Ac.1.98 cents of land acquired pursuant to Award No.11 of 2007 dated 18.11.2007, without initiating appropriate proceedings, in accordance with law, including the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J Date:04.03.2010 Note:CC in one week bo usd