HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM W.P.NO. 13248 OF 2006 DATED: 28.7.2006 Between: Smt. P. Sakunthalamma … Petitioner and The District Panchayat Officer and another … Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM W.P.NO.13248 of 2006 ORAL ORDER: The grievance in this writ petition is that the petitioner’s property is likely to be acquired and the petitioner dispossessed, in respect of premises bearing D.No. 9/180, situated at Raja Street, Gudur village and Mandal, Kurnool District, for the purposes of road widening without following the due process of law either under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 or any other provisions of law enabling acquisition of property and prescribing the procedure therefor. Any act of the respondents seeking to dispossess the petitioner from her property without following the due process of law, will lay open the respondents to severe criminal action, including prosecution for criminal trespass. The petitioner has available a plurality of remedies either to complain against any person, including a person in public office, abusing his public office or under the colour of such office, to dispossess citizen of his property without following the due process of law. Such a complaint could be made to the jurisdictional police station which would be obligated to register the complaint, if it makes out information as to a cognizable offence and such person including a public officer is liable to be arrested and proceeded against. The petitioner also has available a remedy of seeking injunctive relief before the civil court of competent jurisdiction including against a public officer to restrain such public officer from abusing authority and dispossessing the citizen of his property without the due process of law. The petitioner could also resist by employing adequate countervailing force, any unlawful attempt to dispossess her and can exercise the right of private defence of her property. In view of the plurality of remedies available to the petitioner, no case is made out for grant of an interdictory order on a mere apprehension of dispossession, otherwise than in accordance with law. There are no merits. The writ petition is dismissed, however, with liberty to the petitioner to pursue appropriate remedies. There shall be no order as to costs. ------------------------------- GODA RAGHURAM, J Date: 28.7.2006 cvm