HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.8296 of 2010 ORDER: Heard Sri P.Satyanarayana, Learned Counsel for the petitioner and Sri N.Ranga Reddy, Learned Standing Counsel for the respondent – Corporation and, at their request, this Writ Petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. Petitioner claims to own Ac.0-85 cents of land in Sy.NO.76/3 of Chinagadili and to have constructed a house thereat. He claims to have dug a big well covering 60 sq. yards on the western side, and that an open space of 60 yards is available on the western side of the well. While matter stood thus the officials of the respondent corporation, with an intention to widen the road upto a width of 200 feet, are said to have come over to the petitioner’s property on 11.4.2010 and to have attempted to demolish the petitioner’s well without notice and without paying compensation either under Section 146 or Section 147 of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955, as extended to the respondent – Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation. Sri N.Ranga Reddy, Learned Standing Counsel for the respondent –Corporation, would submit that the petitioner’s apprehension of his being dispossessed from the property in question, without adhering to the provisions of Section 146 and 147 of the Act, is without any basis and that the Corporation would ensure that the statutory conditions stipulated in Section 146 and 147 of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955, as extended to the respondent – Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, were complied with before the petitioner was dispossessed from the property in question for the purpose of road widening. Recording the said submission of the Learned Standing Counsel, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the respondent not to interfere with the petitioner’s possession of the aforementioned property except in accordance with Sections 146 and 147 of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955, as extended to the respondent – Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation. No order as to costs. ____________ 13-4-2010 Note: C.C. by 15.4.2010 B/o asp