THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 12739 of 2002 O R D E R: This Writ Petition has been instituted by four individuals seeking a writ of mandamus to refrain the respondents from laying a road through their lands situate in Survey Nos. 158/A and 159 of Pesaladinne Village, Yemmiganur Mandal, Kurnool District, without following the due process of law. The Mandal Parishad Development Officer, Yemmiganur, Kurnool District, the 2nd respondent herein, filed a detailed counter- affidavit in the matter. Paragraph 4 thereof makes a very interesting reading. It is asserted therein as under: “ The respondents never proposed to lay the road through the lands of the petitioners under the food for work programme and as such, we have no occasion to put marking in the lands of the petitioners since there is no proposal to lay the road as alleged by the petitioners.” It is obvious that the writ petitioners have approached this Court on a mere apprehension that a road is sought to be laid through their lands without following the due process of law. In view of the categorical statement made by the Mandal Parishad Development Officer in the counter-affidavit that there is no proposal to lay any such road through the lands of the petitioners, the cause in this Writ Petition does not survive and hence, it is dismissed. No costs. ---------------------------------- (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) 3rd June 2010 ksld