IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:23473 of 2001 Between: 1 Shaik Jaladangi Ibrahim Saab, S/o.Hanees Saab R/o.Obili Village, Penagalur Mandal, Cuddapah District. 2 Davud Sirajuddin S/o.Mohd. Rasool, R/o.Obili Village, Penagalur Mandal, Cuddapah District. 3 Nandalur Jafar Saheb S/o.Mohd. Saheb, R/o.Obili Village, Penagalur Mandal, Cuddapah District. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Dist.Collector, Cuddapah District. 2 The Mandal Revenue Officer Penagalur Mandal, Cuddapah District. 3 The Executive Engineer Panchayath Raj Dept., Rajampet, Cuddapah District. 4 Nuvvula Gandisetty R/o.Rachavaripalli, Penagalur Mandal, Cuddapah District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.K.VENUGOPAL REDDY Counsel for Respondent Nos.1 & 2:AGP FOR REVENUE Counsel for Respondent No.3: AGP FOR PANCHAYAT RAJ Counsel for Respondent No.4: MR. B.V.RAMA RAO FOR MR. G.KRISHNAMURTHY The Court made the following : ORDER: In this writ petition, the only grievance of the petitioners is that in order to lay a road from Obili Village to Diguva Rachapalli, the existing channel in Survey No.582, which irrigates the petitioners’ lands, is sought to be closed. Heard Sri K.Venugopal Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for respondent No.4 and perused the record. In the counter-aﬃdavit ﬁled by respondent No.2, he admitted that the petitioners’ lands are classiﬁed as wet lands under Obili Kalva, which passes through the Rasta (Cart Track) beginning from Survey No.582 and that under the Drought grant, the work of formation of road from Diguva Rachapalli to Obili was sanctioned by the Panchayat Raj Department. He further stated that there is no channel by the name “Tenkaya Topu”, but the existing channel is quite essential to irrigate the lands of the petitioners through the water of Obili tank. He requested the Court to give a direction to the Panchayat Raj Department to lay a road along the channel in Survey No.582 to protect the crops relating to the petitioners. Learned counsel for respondent No.4 stated that his client has no objection for laying of the road without disturbing the existing channel in Survey No.582. Having regard to the averments contained in the counter-aﬃdavit ﬁled by respondent No.2, referred to above, and the submission of the learned counsel for respondent No.4, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to respondent Nos.1 to 3 not to disturb the existing irrigation channel, through which, the petitioners’ lands are irrigated, for laying of the road from Obili to Diguva Rachapalli. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 7th NOVEMBER, 2008. kvni