THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.2752 of 2008 Date: 12.02.2008 Between: Rapole Madhusudan and others … Petitioners AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh and another … Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.2752 of 2008 ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus to set aside notification, dated 03.01.2008 issued by respondent No.1 under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’) to the extent of the land belonging to the petitioners. Heard Sri M.Venkatram Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Land Acquisition. The grievance of the petitioners is that after publication of notification issued under Section 4(1) of the Act on 03.01.2008, the respondents having issued notice under Section 5A of the Act and received objections, started taking measurements of the land even before holding enquiry and passing order on the objections of the petitioners. Under Section 4(2) of the Act, after publication of preliminary notification as envisaged in Section 4(1) of the Act, any officer authorized by the District Collector or his servants and workmen are entitled to enter upon and survey and take levels of any land, to dig or bore into the sub-soil, to do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether the land is adaptable for such purpose and to set out the boundaries of the land proposed to be taken etc. In the light of the said provision, the petitioners’ grievance that the respondents have been taking measurements of the land proposed to be acquired appears to be illusory. The provisions of Section 4(2) of the Act empower the officials and workers of respondent No.1 to enter the land and take measurements even before holding enquiry under Section 5A of the Act. In that view of the matter, the writ petition is wholly misconceived and the same is, therefore, dismissed. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition, WPMP.No.3540 of 2008 filed by the petitioners for interim relief is also dismissed. C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 12th FEBRUARY, 2008 kvni