HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.13156 of 2011 Date: 28.09.2011 Between: Azizunnisa Begum And three others. ..... Petitioners AND The Forest Range Officer, Ramayampet Range, Medak District and another. .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioners: Sri V.Nitesh Counsel for the Respondents: AGP for Forests The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in obstructing the ingress and egress to the patta lands of the petitioners in Survey Nos.642/Lu, 642/Luu, 642/Ga and 642/Gha, admeasuring Ac.14-12 guntas of Vadiaram Village, Chegunta Mandal, Medak District, and not permitting the petitioners to carry on agricultural operations as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioners pleaded that they are the owners of the above-mentioned lands and that, on the northern side of their land, forest exists. The grievance of the petitioners is that they are being denied access to their lands on the ground that the land through which they reach their lands belongs to the forest department. In the counter-affidavit filed by respondent No.1 it is inter alia stated that the petitioners submitted representation, dated 23.05.2011, to the Forest Range Officer, Ramayampet, and Divisional Forest Officer, Medak and that, on examination of the said representation, it was found that there is no forest surrounding the survey numbers in which the petitioners’ lands are situated and that the forest department has not obstructed the petitioners’ agricultural operations. Respondents, however, added a caveat by stating that if the petitioners enter the forest land, appropriate action will be taken under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980. In the light of the stand taken in the counter-affidavit referred to above, which discloses that the forest department is not obstructing the right of way of the petitioners to reach their agricultural lands comprised in the above-mentioned survey numbers, no further adjudication of the issues raised in the Writ Petition on merits need be made. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, W.P.M.P.No.15967 of 2011 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. __________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 28th September, 2011 DR