IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 20246 of 2002 Between: Beedupally Grampanchayat Rep. by its Sarpanch Sri.B.Madhava Reddy, S/o.B.Bal Reddy, Puttaparthi Mandal, Ananthapur Dist., ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Dist Collector, Anantapur. 2 The District Panchayat Officer, Anantapur. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Penukonda, Anantapur District. 4 E.Ramachandrappa S/o.E.Babaiah, R/o. Brahmanahalli Village, Puttaparthi Mandal, Ananthapur District. ..RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.CHAKRAVARTHY FOR MR.O.MANOHER REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: ----- The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is ﬁled for the following substantive relief: “This Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ or direction declaring the notiﬁcation issued in District Gazette in Rc.No.A10/9501/96 dated 1-11-1996 wherein the tope poramboke vesting in the Gram Panchayat had been withdrawn from Beedupalli Gram panchayat Puttaparti Mandal, Anantapur District as illegal, arbitrary and without jurisdiction.” On 22-10-2008 this case was adjourned, noticing that the term of the Sarpanch, who ﬁled this writ petition representing the petitioner- Gram Panchayat expired, to enable the learned counsel for the petitioner to seek instructions from the petitioner-Gram Panchayat as to whether it is interested in pursuing this writ petition. Today, at the hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the writ petition may be dismissed with liberty to the petitioner-Gram Panchayat to ﬁle a fresh writ petition, if it is so interested. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed as withdrawn with liberty in terms of the prayer made. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 7th November, 2008 vrn