THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY W.P. No.9601 of 2003 Date of Order: 10-03-2011 Between: NadimpalliSatyanarayana ..Petitioner and The Cherla Gram Panchayat, rep.by its Panchayat Secretary and others. ..Respondents The Court made the following Order: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY W.P.No.9601 of 2003 Oral order: The petitioner, tailor by profession, claims that he constructed a shop bearing No.6-45 in Gramakantam site, Cherla village, Cherla Mandal, Khammam District 35 years ago and paying taxes to the Gram Panchayat filed the present writ petition stating that he should not be evicted from the shop without following the due process of law. It is stated by the petitioner that he being a Scheduled Tribe entitled to get a house site patta, occupied the land 35 years back in Gramakantam, constructed a shop and conducting tailoring business and eking out the livelihood. The Gram Panchayat allotted H.No.6-45 to his shop and collecting house tax and water tax etc. The 1st respondent—Gram Panchayat has not raised any objection for his occupation and he continued to be in possession; therefore, he cannot be evicted from the shop without following the due process of law. This Court while admitting the writ petition passed an interim order in W.P.M.P.No.12207 of 2003, dated 13-05-2003 directing the respondents not to dispossess the petitioner without following the due process of law. Though the matter is pending for the last 8 years, none of the respondents, who served notice as early as in June, 2003, have filed any counter objecting the possession of the petitioner. In view of the same, writ petition is disposed of directing the respondents not to dispossess the petitioner from the petition schedule property i.e. shop bearing No.6-45 of Cherla village without issuing any notice about objectionable encroachment of the petitioner and following due process in that regard. No costs. _________________ A.GOPAL REDDY, J. 10-03-2011 Murthy