HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PEITITON No. 25773 OF 2011 Dated 2nd November, 2011 Between: P. Siva Lakshmamma and 30 others ………Petitioners And The District Collector, Kurnool and another ………..Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri K. Amarnath Reddy Counsel for the respondents : Assistant Government Pleader for Land Acquisition The Court made the following ORDER: This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “to issue an appropriate order or direction more particularly, one in the nature of writ of Mandamus, declaring the notification published U/Sec.4(1) and Section 6 of Land Acquisition Act in the daily news paper dated: 31/05/2008 and 17/09/2008 with respective the agricultural lands in P. Chintakunta village, Allagada Mandal, Kurnool District as illegal, irregular, arbitrary, unconstitutional, unjustified and unsustainable and set-aside the same.” At the hearing, learned counsel for the petitioners sought permission of the Court to withdraw the writ petition with liberty to his clients to challenge award dated 20-02-2009, passed in pursuance of the impugned notification and declaration. The request of the learned counsel for the petitioners is accepted and the writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to the petitioners in terms of the prayer made. The liberty given to the petitioners is however subject to the right of the respondents to raise the issue of laches. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, WPMP No. 31783 of 2011, filed by the petitioners for interim relief, is disposed of as infructuous. C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated: 2nd November, 2011 ks