HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.7035 OF 2009 ORDER: This writ petition is filed to declare the action of the respondents in not stopping the construction taken up by the 6th respondent in 13th Ward of Tanuku Municipality in R.S. No.90/1, Tanuku village, adjacent to canal and burial ground as arbitrary and illegal. Petitioners 12 in number are residents of the 13th Ward of Tanuku town. It is their case that the 6th respondent has started constructing a prayer hall in the site in R.S. No.90/1, Tanuku revenue village near the canal and the burial ground; on a representation made by them to the Municipal authorities not to permit construction of a church, in view of the provisions of the Municipalities Act, the Municipal Commissioner had furnished a copy of the endorsement dated 24.02.2009 to the petitioners herein whereby the 6th respondent K. Elia was asked not to take up construction of the hut or re-construction till sanction was accorded. Sri P. Nageswara Rao, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the 6th respondent, would submit that, while a thatched hut was erected, pits were dug and concrete pillars erected without permission, the 6th respondent would not resort to any further construction on the said plot of land without obtaining written permission from the 3rd respondent- Municipality for construction of the building and, if the 3rd respondent so required, for sanction of lay out also. With regards the thatched hut raised on the plot of land, and the concrete pillars erected, if such construction violates the provisions of the A.P. Municipalities Act or the Rules and Regulations made thereunder it is open to the 3rd respondent to take action in accordance with law. The 6th respondent shall not make any further construction except in terms of the undertaking noted hereinabove. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. Date: 31.03.2010 ___________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J MRKR