HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.2371 of 2010 Date 15.02.2011 Between: P.Kesava Reddy and another. ..... PETITIONER AND The District Collector, Chittoor District, Chittor and others. .....RESPONDENT Counsel for the petitioner :Sri T.Nagarjuna Reddy Counsel for the Respondent No.4 :Smt Ch. Veda Vani Counsel for the Respondent No.6 :Sri Kowturu Vinaya Kumar HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.2371 of 2010 ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed more on apprehension rather than on any real cause of action. The petitioners, who are villagers of Peruru Village, ChandraGiri Mandal, Chittoor District, apprehending that allotment of Ac.0.30 cents of land in favour of respondent No.6 for Dhobi Ghat may result in blockage of irrigation channel through which their lands are getting irrigated filed the present writ petition. In the counter affidavit filed by respondent No.2, he has allayed this apprehension. He has stated that respondent No.6 has approached the District Collector for allotment of a piece of land for construction of Dhobi Ghat and that on receipt of a report and also a resolution passed by Peruru Gram Panchayat recommending for allotment of Ac.0.30 cents of land in Sy.No.164 classified as kalva poramboke, respondent No.1 has made allotment in favour of respondent No.6. It is asserted that such allotment does not in any manner obstruct free flow of water. It is also stated that the channel is not proposed for closure nor the same is intended to be diverted and that all the surrounding lands, except the land in Sy.No.77, are irrigated through this channel only. This Court while admitting the Writ Petition directed respondent Nos.1 and 2 to ensure that the free flow of water in the channel situated in Sy.No.164 of Peruru Gram Panchayat is not obstructed. Respondent No.6, in the counter affidavit, specifically stated that they do not intend to cause any obstruction to the free flow of water to the channel in question and that allotment of land in their favour does not in any manner prejudice the interest of the petitioners. As noted above, except the apprehension, no material is placed by the petitioners to show that construction of Dhobi Ghat by respondent No.6 or their activity would in any manner cause obstruction to the free flow of water in the channel. Far from there being any such material, the counter affidavits filed by respondent Nos.2 and 6 belie those apprehensions. In view of the same, the Writ Petition is disposed of with liberty to the petitioners to approach the competent authority, if and when the free flow of the channel in question is obstructed by respondent No.6. As a sequel to disposal of the main petition, WPMP.No.3159 of 2010 and WVMP.Nos.1676 and 2713 of 2010 are disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:15.02.2011 usd