THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY Writ Petition Nos.10486, 11700, 11898, 12049, 12067, 12099, 12113, 12139, 12195, 12366, 12367 and 12469 of 2007 Dated 07th July, 2011 Between: Kakarla Chandraiah and another …Petitioners (W.P.No.10486 of 2007) And The District Collector, West Godavari District, Eluru and others …Respondents (W.P.No.10486 of 2007) Counsel for the petitioners: Sri K.Chidambaram Counsel for respondents: GP for Land Acquisition The Court made the following: COMMON ORDER: Though in these writ petitions separate notifications issued under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’) are questioned, as the issue raised in all these writ petitions is common, they are being heard and disposed of together at the interlocutory stage with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties. The petitioners are the owners of the lands, which are notified for acquisition for the purpose of providing house sites to the weaker sections. All these lands are agricultural lands and by the time of issuance of the impugned notifications, the use of the lands was not converted for non-agricultural purpose. While enquiry under Section 5-A of the Act is pending, these writ petitions are filed on the plea that the very proposal to acquire the agricultural lands for non-agricultural purpose without converting the land use is illegal and impermissible. At the hearing, the learned Government Pleader for Land Acquisition representing the respondents submitted that the issue raised in these writ petitions is no longer res integra in view of the judgment of this Court in R.Veera Raghava Prasad and others v. District Collector, Krishna District at Machilipatnam and another[1], wherein it was held that conversion of nature of land use is not sine qua non for acquisition. The learned counsel for the petitioners have not disputed this position in law. Having regard to the judgment in R.Veera Raghava Prasad (supra) and the fact that the enquiry under Section 5-A of the Act is pending, no relief at this stage can be granted in favour of the petitioners. Accordingly, these writ petitions are disposed of permitting the petitioners to submit their objections before the respective Land Acquisition Officers within a period of four weeks from today. On receipt of the objections from the petitioners, the respective Land Acquisition Officers shall fix a date of hearing and intimate the same to the petitioners. Appropriate orders under Section 5-A of the Act can be passed after giving the petitioners an opportunity of personal hearing. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petitions, interim orders, if any granted in all these writ petitions, shall stand vacated and the interlocutory applications, if any pending, shall stand disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 07th July, 2011 VGB [1] 2008(2) ALT 136