IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE THIRTY FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI ANIL R. DAVE, THE CHIEF JUSTICE and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 27343 of 2008 Between: Gaddalagunta Grama Bhivruddi Commitee Near Grandhalayam Gaddalaguntapalem Ongole Rep.by its Secretary Ariga Srinivasa Rao S/o.Venkata Rao R/o. Door No.2-1- 112 Gaddalagunta,Ongole Prakasam District ..... PETITIONER AND 1 State of Andhra Pradesh Rep.by Secretary to Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department Secretariat Saifabad Hyderabad 2 Ongole Municipality Rep.by its Commissioner Ongole Prakasam District 3 The District Collector Prakasam District Ongole 4 The Revenue Divisional Officer Ongole Prakasam District 5 The Tahasildar Ongole(M) Prakasam District .....RESPONDENT(S) 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 to issue a Writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in contemplating to demolish library building ceremony hall and to distribute the site of About Ac 1.00 cents covered by Sy No.462 of Ongole Municipal Limits situated at Gaddalagunta Near Nehru Statue as house sites though earmarked for public park purpose as illegal irregular arbitrary violative of provisions of Andhra Pradesh Municipalites act 1965 and offends articles 14 and 21 of Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents to protect the said land for public Park purpose without assigning the same to anybody as house sites and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.NIMMAGADDA SATYANARAYANA Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR MUNCIPAL ADMN. & URBAN DEV. The Court made the following : ORAL ORDER: (Per Sri Anil R. Dave, CJ) The grievance, which has been ventilated in this public interest litigation is that a Library situated within the limits of respondent No.2- Municipality is likely to be demolished. In pursuance of notice issued by this Court, learned Advocate appearing for respondent No.2-Municipality has submitted that there is no proposal with regard to demolition of the Library building. In the circumstances, in our opinion, the grievance ventilated in the petition is not proper and, therefore, the petition is disposed of as rejected with no order as to costs. ______________________ ANIL R. DAVE, CJ __________________________ R. SUBHASH REDDY, J 31st December, 2008. GRR