IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION NO : 17273 of 2008 Between: 1 Savathri Jaya pradah W/o Purushotham C/o A Subramanyam Setty, D. No. 28/268F1, ramanatha Reddy nagar, Nandyal, Kurnool District. 2 Beemanapalle Venkata Subbaiah S/o Pullaiah 3 Chagalmari Noor Mohamad Khaja S/o Rasool Saheb 4 Chagalmari Abdul Kalam s/o Mohiddin Saheb 5 Chagalmari Abdul Salam, s/o Mohiddin Saheb, 6 Bandi Subbaiah S/o Papanna 7 bandi Kondaiah S/o Papanna 8 Arigela Linga Murthy S/o Pedda Linganna, 9 Shaik Ibrahim S/o Shaik Mabu Sa, 10 Lalbigari Razak Miah S/o Sali Saheb 11 Maranthu nagamma W/o nagi REddy @ Pedda Nagi Reddy 12 bayagari Laxmi narayana Swamy S/o Venganna 13 Pathi Srinivasulu S/o Ramaiah 14 Shaik Ramija Bee W/o Late Mohiddin Saheb 15 Bolladdula Kamalamma W/o pullaiah 16 Meddela Veeranna S/o Chinna Subbanna 17 Thalikota Hussanappa S/o nagappa 18 Shaik Shahajadi W/o Shaik Hutchu Bhai 19 Gajula Venu Gopal S/o Eswaraiah 20 Pathi Venkata Subramanyam S/o late Somaiah 21 Yerraguntla Ram Prasad, S/o late yerrguntla balanna @ Midde Balanna 22 Ramisetty Pedda Pullaiah S/o Yellappa 23 G. Katamma W/o G. Subbarayudu 24 Gudipati Surendra S/o Venkateswrlu 25 Bethamesetty Chinna Venkateswarlu S/o Pullanna 26 Navale gowari bai W/o prasad Rao 27 Navale Gowari bai W/o Prasad Rao 28 Mahindrakar Seeta Bai w/o Ramachandra Rao 29 Bethare Aruna bai W/o Aurali Rao 30 Arigela Nageswara Rao S/o A. balanna 31 Owk Chinna Venkata Swamy S/o Pedda Pllanna All are R/o Nandyal Town, Kurnool District. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Land Acquisition Officer & Revenue Divisional Officer, nandyal, Kurnool. 2 The District Collector, Kurnool. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue appropriate Writ or order or direction mostly one which is in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the Notiﬁcation U/s 4 (1) of the Land Acquisition Act Published in Kurnool District, Vaartha daily News Paper date 16-2-2008 vide proceedings Rc. G. 140/2008 with regard to the lands of the petitioners as illegal, irregular, arbitrary unconstitutional unjustiﬁed and unsustainable and set a side the same holding that the lands of the petitioners are not liable to be acquired by the Government and pass such other order or orders as it may deem fit. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.P.VEERA REDDY Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR LAND ACQUISITION The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE Ms. JUSTICE G. ROHINI WRIT PETITION No. 17273 of 2008 O R D E R: The petitioners herein claim to be the owners and possessors of diﬀerent extents of land situated in Nandyal village and Mandal Kurnool District. It is stated that the land belonging to them is sought to be acquired under the provisions of Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’) for the purpose of providing house sites to the people belonging to weaker sections under Indiramma scheme phase II and III. However, in the notiﬁcation published under Section 4(1) of the Act, dated 14-02-2008, the names of the petitioners were not shown and consequently they were not given any opportunity to participate in the enquiry under Section 5- A of the Act. Aggrieved by the said action of the respondents, the present writ petition is filed. Having heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Land Acquisition appearing for the respondents and having regard to the speciﬁc plea of the petitioners that being the owners and possessors of the land in question they are persons interested, the writ petition is disposed of permitting the petitioners to submit their objections to the acquisition within a period of two weeks from today. On receipt of such objections, the respondents shall consider the same following due process of law before taking any further steps pursuant to the notiﬁcation dated 14-02-2008. No costs. ______________ G. ROHINI,J Date: 08-08-2008 Note: Issue C.c. in three days. B/o KLP