THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V.RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.9699 OF 2009 ORDER: This writ petition is filed by 31 petitioners stating that they are owners of various extents of lands situated in Sy.Nos.2, 3/1,3/2, 53/B, 54/C, 41, 3(P) of Adavivaram Village, Chinagadili Mandal, within the limits of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation and some of them have also constructed houses in the said plots and living there. While so, the respondent, proposing to widen the existing road, which is appurtenant to the houses/house sites of the petitioners to 120 ft. without amending the master plan or without making any local enquiry or acquiring their lands, encroaching into their plots for the said purpose. It is also stated that the respondent is also demolishing the constructions found in the said plots to such extents, as is required without following due process of law and thus they filed this writ petition seeking a direction to the respondent not to interfere with their possession of the lands in question and dispossess them without following due process of law. The learned standing counsel for the respondent Greater Visakhpatnam Municipal Corporation on instructions submits that they are not interfering with the possession of the petitioners of the lands in question and that if the said lands are required for the public purpose, they will follow due process of law. In view of the above submission, the writ petition is disposed of directing that the respondents shall not to interfere with the possession of the petitioners of the lands in question and dispossess them without following due process of law and till such time status quo obtaining as on today to be maintained. N.V.RAMANA,J Dt.1.5.2009 Note: Furnish CC by tomorrow (B/o) msv