HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION NO. 30889 OF 2010 Wednesday, the Eighth Day of December, Two Thousand and Ten Between Jatwani Naresh Kumar Petitioner AND State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary to Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and another Respondents O R D E R: The only grievance of the petitioners is that without issuing any notice and without paying any compensation and without following due process of law, the respondents are attempting to dispossess them from a portion of the building bearing municipal assessment No. 8921 situated in TS No. 411 in Chirala Municipal Limites to an extent of 237 Sq. yards, for the purpose of road widening. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the action of respondents without following the due procedure prescribed under law and without paying any compensation either by way of private negotiations or by way of initiating proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act is utter violation of the principles of natural justice as well as Secs. 146 and 147of the Municipal Corporation Act. This court disposed of number of writ petitions directing the respondents not to demolish the houses of the private citizens without following due process of law. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, this writ petition is disposed of directing the respondents not to demolish the structures or take away any portion of the property of the petitioners and not to dispossess them without following due process of law either under Sec. 146 or 147 of the Municipal Corporation Act or by private negotiations or by initiating the proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. No costs. ___________________________ Justice Ashutosh Mohunta December 8, 2010 Issue CC in a week. MAS