THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.19562 of 2003 ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in not giving notice before demolishing the buildings of the petitioners as arbitrary and illegal. The vendor of the petitioners – Faizuddin was the absolute owner of the lands in survey Nos.60, 61, 62 and 63 admeasuring Acs.9.20 guntas situated at Gachibowli Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. Out of the said land, the first petitioner purchased house No.2-1 on plot No.1 admeasuring 750 sq. yards in survey Nos.60, 61, and 63, second petitioner purchased plot Nos.5 and 6 admeasuring 711 sq. yards in said survey numbers and third petitioner purchased plot Nos.12 and 13 admeasuring 400 sq. yards in the same survey numbers, under registered sale deeds. Their names were mutated in the municipal records. While so, the respondents, without issuing any notice to the petitioners, demolished their buildings and occupied their plots for construction of Commissioner of Police Cyberabad Training Institute. In fact, the vendor of the petitioners filed W.P.No.16418 of 2003 not to demolish the existing structures and obtained order of status quo. Still, the respondents are carrying on the construction work. Hence, the petitioners are before this Court by filing the present writ petition for appropriate relief. In the counter-affidavit filed by the third respondent, denying the allegations made in the writ petition, it is inter alia stated that the land in survey No.91 admeasuring Acs.522.15 guntas is the Government land classified as Government Kancha Maqtha; that out of the said land, it was decided by the Government through Memo dated 05.12.2003 to transfer the land to an extent of Acs.34.00 to the Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad, Ranga Reddy District, for construction of office building etc.; that pursuant to the said decision, the revenue authorities handed over possession of the land to the Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad, and since then the land has been in possession and enjoyment of the Police Department. It is further stated that the land in survey No.91 is surrounded by the land of the petitioners in survey Nos.60, 61 and 63; that the revenue authorities never demolished any structures of the petitioners in survey Nos.60, 61 and 63 and that as the Government has not taken possession of the petitioners from their land in survey Nos.60, 61 and 63, the question of payment of compensation will not arise. It is also assured that in case the land of the petitioners in survey Nos.60, 61 and 63 is required by the Government for any public purpose, due process of law will be followed while taking possession. In view of the counter averments that the land belonging to the petitioners in survey Nos.60, 61 and 63 and the land transferred by the Government to the Police Department in survey No.91 are different; that the respondents took a specific stand that they are not interfering with the possession of the petitioners in respect of their land in survey Nos.60, 61 and 63; that the land handed over by the Government to the Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad, for construction of training institute is in survey No.91 and the assurance given by the respondents that due process of law would be followed in case the need for acquiring the land belonging to the petitioners in survey Nos.60, 61 and 63 for any public purpose arises, no further orders need be passed in this writ petition and the disputed question whether the land in which the training institute is being constructed is situated in survey No.91 as claimed by the respondents or in survey Nos.60, 61 and 63 as claimed by the petitioners cannot be gone into by this Court in a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution. The remedy of the petitioners is to approach civil Court in regard to the disputed question. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is dismissed giving liberty to the petitioners to avail the remedies in law. No costs. e _______________________ N.V. RAMANA, J 12th August, 2010 GHN