IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 25242 of 2005 Between: Kunjam Suranna Dora S/o.Veerapu Dora Schedued Tribe (Koya Dora) R/o.Bodigudem, H/o.China Ramanayyapeta, Devipatnam (M) East Godavari District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Mandal Revenue Officer, Devipatnam Mandal. 2 Revenue Divisional Officer Rampachodavaram. 3 Sub Inpsector of Police Devipatnam, All East Godavari District. 4 Badireddy Rama Rao S/o. Lakshmaiah Pudipalli, Devipatnam Mandal, Rampachodavaram Division, E.G. District 5 Devisetty Venkata Lakshmi W/o. late Chittabbai @ Bullebbayi Pudipalli, Devipatnam Mandal, Rampachodavaram Division, E.G. District 6 Konathala Narasimha Rao S/o. Ramachandra Venkata Krishna Rao Pudipalli, Devipatnam Mandal, Rampachodavaram Division, E.G. District 7 Konathala Nageswari W/o. Narasimha Rao Pudipalli, Devipatnam Mandal, Rampachodavaram Division, E.G. District 8 Konathala Pattiamma W/o. late Srinivasa Rao Pudipalli, Devipatnam Mandal, Rampachodavaram Division, E.G. District RR 4to8 impleaded as per court order dt. 23-2-2006 in WPMP 279 of 2006 .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.K.BALAGOPAL Counsel for Respondents 1 and 2: GP FOR REVENUE Counsel for Respondent No.3: None appeared Counsel for Respondents 4 to 8 : G.Krishna Murthy The Court made the following : O R D E R: At the interlocutory stage, the writ petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties. This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “It is therefore prayed that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue an order, direction or writ, more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus, declaring that the action of the respondents one and two in pressurizing by the threat of forcible eviction of the petitioner and other scheduled tribes to vacate the land in their occupation measuring 18.34 hectares in S.Nos.14/1,14/2,15/3, 17/1,17/2,17/3,18/2 and 19/2 of Pudipalli, Devipatnam Mandal, is arbitrary and unlawful and further direct the said officials to stop such threats and protect the possession of the petitioner and other scheduled tribes in the said land.” At the hearing, Sri K.Balagopal, learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted that in view of the events taken place after the filing of the writ petition such as issuing of notification by the Government for acquiring the lands in question, the petitioner is intending to avail appropriate remedies available to him in law to question the said notification and claim other appropriate reliefs. Hence, it is stated that the writ petition as it is conceived has become infructuous. He requested for dismissing the writ petition with liberty to the petitioner to avail appropriate remedies. The request of the learned counsel is accepted and the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous with liberty in terms of the prayer made. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition as infructuous, interim order dated 28-11-2005 is vacated. WPMP No.32457 of 2005 is dismissed and WVMP No.354 of 2006 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Dated 8th July, 2008 vrn