IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FOURT DAY OF SEPTEMBER, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY WRIT PETITION No.4787 OF 2002 Between: G.Mallikarjuna and five others. … Petitioners And The District Collector, Mahabubnagar, Mahabubnagar District and another. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: None. Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Transport. This Court made the following: ORDER:- This Writ Petition is ﬁled for a Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in demolishing the building and shops of the petitioners on either side of Gadwal- Ieeza road without following due process of law for the proposed widening of 50 feet road, as illegal and arbitrary. In the aﬃdavit ﬁled in support of the writ petition the petitioners stated that on the ground that the existing 50 feet road in Ieeza village is required to be widened to 100 feet; the respondents have marked 50 feet from the center of the road and are seeking to demolish the structures of the petitioners without following due process of law. At the hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioners is not present. The learned Assistant Government Pleader for Transport placed before me fax letter dated 16-9-2008 sent by the incharge Executive Engineer, R & B Division, Wanaparthy, to the learned Government Pleader for Transport (Roads & Buildings) Department, wherein he stated that the R & B Department has not taken any action to demolish the structures on Gadwal-Ieeja road from KM Nos.29/0 to 30/6 of Ieeja town; that no works are sanctioned by the said Department to widen the existing roads in Ieeja Town portion; and that whenever the action for widening of roads in Ieeza town portion is proposed, the R& B Department will take action for removal of the existing structures on the portion to be widened duly following the instructions of the Government for identiﬁcation and removal of the existing structures in coordination with the Revenue Department. Having regard to the above-mentioned stand taken by the respondents, the cause in the Writ Petition does not survive for consideration. The Writ Petition is accordingly dismissed as infructuous. ------------------------- ----------- C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date: 24-9-2008 MNR