THE HON’BLE Ms. JUSTICE G. ROHINI WRIT PETITION NO. 11288 of 2000 DATE: 01-05-2007 Between : V.Kutumba Rao and another … Petitioners And The District Collector, Krishna District, Machilipatnam and 3 others. … Respondents THE HON’BLE Ms. JUSTICE G. ROHINI WRIT PETITION NO.11288 of 2000 ORDER: The petitioners herein, who claim to have been in occupation of small extents of Government land situated in Sy.No.403/P of Mukkollupadu village, Nuzvid Mandal, Krishna District, filed this writ petition alleging that the respondents herein have been attempting to dispossess them forcibly without following due process of law. It is stated that as a matter of fact, there were instructions to assign the land situated in Sy.No.403/P to the persons in occupation and the petitioners who belong to weaker sections of the society are entitled for such assignments. However the respondents failed to do so, but on the other hand started interfering with their possession and attempting to dispossess them forcibly. Hence, this writ petition. This Court, while directing Rule Nisi, by order dated 28-06-2000 directed that the petitioners shall not be dispossessed except through due process of law. Though Rule Nisi was ordered on 28-06-2000, no counter affidavit has been filed by any of the respondents so far. Having regard to the facts and circumstances and in the absence of any counter affidavit by the respondents contradicting the plea of the petitioners as to the possession and enjoyment of the land in question, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondents not to interfere with the possession of the petitioners in any manner whatsoever in respect of the land in question without following due process of law. No costs. _______________ G. ROHINI, J. Date:01-05-2007 KLP