IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.25161 of 2008 Between: 1 L.S.K. Bhagavanulu S/o. Venkata Ratnam, Hindu R/o. D.No. 31-17-17, Kutumba Rao Street, Machavaram Down, Vijayawada-4 2 Lanka Annapurna Soma Sekhara Prasad S/o. L.S.NK. Bhagavanulu, Hindu, R/o. D.No. 31-17-17, Kutumba Rao Street, Machavaram Down, Vijayawada-4 3 Kurapati Sugana Gnana Prasunamba W/o. Kurapati Naga Durga Prasad, Hindu, R/o. D.No. 31-17-17, Kutumba Rao Street, Machavaram Down, Vijayawada-4 4 Lanka Survarchala Hanuman Kumar S/o. L.S.K. Bhagavanulu, Hindu R/o. D.No. 31-17-17, Kutumba Rao Street, Machavaram Down, Vijayawada-4 5 Jalasutram Kanaka Mahalaksmi W/o. Jalasutram Seetaramayya, Hindu, R/o. LIG 47, APIIC Colony Jeedimetla, Hyderabad. 6 Kuchi Seshu Bhanu W/o. K.V.S. Satyanarayana Murthy, Hindu R/o. D.No. 21-11-51/B, 3rd Lane, Lecturers' Colony Madhuranagar, Vijayawada-11 7 Kaza Rama Lakshmi W/o. Kaza Ravindra Babu R/o. D.No. 31-17-17, Kutumba Rao Street, Machavaram Down, Vijayawada-4. ...PETITIONERS AND 1 State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Secretary, Revenue (Land Acquisition) Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 2 The District Collector, Krishna District, Machilipatnam. 3 Revenue Divisional Officer-Cum-Land Acquisition Officer, Gudivada, Krishna District. ...RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue writ order or Direction particularly in the nature of Mandamus the refusal of respondent Nos. 2 to acquire Ac 0-12 cents in RS No. 783/5 and Ac 0-03 cents in RS No. 778/5 of Kalidindi Village and Mandal, Krishna District, by his proceedings in Rc G4-4007/07 dt. 17-11-2007 is arbitrary and illegal, and to direct the respondents no. 2 and 3 to acquire Ac 0-12 cents in RS NO. 783/5 and Ac 0-03 cents in RS No. 778/5 of Kalidindi Village and Mandal of Krishna District in acquisition proceedings vide Notitification issued under Section 4(1) of Land Acquisition Act dt. 5-10-2007. Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.K.SOMESWARA KUMAR Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following: THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.25161 of 2008 ORDER: Petitioners are the owners and possessors of land to an extent of Ac.1.59 cents in different Survey numbers of Kalidindi Village and Mandal, Krishna District. While that being so, the land with the petitioners to an extent of Ac.1.44 cents was acquired under land acquisition proceedings and attained finality. Now, the grievance of the petitioners is that they had in all Ac.1.59 cents of land in Kalidindi Village, but the respondents acquired Ac.1.44 cents leaving 0.15 cents. According to the petitioners, these 0.15 cents are of no use for them nor anybody is ready to purchase the same and hence, requested the second respondent to take appropriate action for acquiring the said 0.15 cents also, which may be useful for the public purpose i.e., owners of the houses raised therein. It appears that the second respondent, the District Collector, directed the Revenue Divisional Officer, Gudivada, vide his letter dated 02.04.2008 directing him to enquire into the matter and take necessary action. According to the petitioners, though the said letter was addressed by the second respondent to the third respondent, the third respondent has not taken any action till date. Under those circumstances, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the third respondent to enquire into the matter, as directed by the second respondent and take appropriate action as per law within a period of four {4} weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and communicate the same to the petitioner. No order as to costs. ______________ (C.V.RAMULU, J) 22nd January 2009 Note: CC by four days B/O RRB