HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI WRIT PETITION No.25267 of 2008 Date: February 15, 2011 Between: Gundubogula Sujana. … Petitioner And 1. The District Collector, East Godavari District at Kakinada & another. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI WRIT PETITION No.25267 of 2008 ORDER: This writ petition has been filed challenging the Draft Notification dated 18.8.2008 published in the East Godavari District Gazette dated 19.8.2008 and the enquiry under Section 5(A) of the Land Acquisition Act (for short ‘the Act’) pursuant thereto, as illegal. 2. The petitioner is the owner of an extent of Ac.3.18 cents of land situated in Sy.No.31/1B and 34/4A of Yerupally village, Ramachandrapuram Mandal, East Godavari District. The said land was proposed to be acquired for the purpose of house sites under Notification dated 18.8.2008 published in the A.P. Gazette dated 19.8.2008 under Section 4(1) of the Act. 3. Various contentions have been raised challenging the said proposal, which need not be gone into in view of the events stated in the counter-affidavit filed on behalf of the respondents. 4. The Draft Notification was published on 19.8.2008 in the Gazette and the same was published in two daily newspapers on 24.8.2010 and the substance of the notification was also published in the locality on 20.10.2008. The said notification has not been interdicted by means of any Court orders. Therefore, the Draft Declaration ought to have been published within one year i.e., on or before 19.10.2009. However, in the counter-affidavit it is admitted that no such declaration has been published even as on this day and therefore acquisition proceedings have lapsed. 5. In view of the categorical statement in the counter-affidavit that the notification itself has lapsed, the grievance of the petitioner in this writ petition no longer exists for adjudication. 6. Recording the said statement of the respondents, this writ petition is disposed of as redundant. No costs. _________________ NOUSHAD ALI, J Date: February 15, 2011. BSB