THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.Y.SOMAYAJULU WRIT PETITION No.7420 of 2001 Date: 23.01.2008 Between: 1. Y. Parandham Raju and others ……PETITIONER(S) A N D 1. The Assistant Director of Mines and Geology, Department of Mines, Nellore, Nellore District and others. ……RESPONDENT(S) THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.Y.SOMAYAJULU WRIT PETITION No.7420 of 2001 ORDER: This petition is filed questioning the respondents permitting quarry operations to extract road metal in S.No.50 of Chillamanuchenu village in Ozili Mandal of Nellore District. 2. By the order dated 29.08.2007 a learned Judge of this Court directed the District Collector, Nellore, to instruct the concerned Revenue Divisional Officer, within whose revenue division the village of Chillamanuchenu village falls, to submit a report with regard to the illegal operations of cutting and crushing the stone and converting it into road metal in the land in Sy.No.50 of Chilamanuchenu village in an extent of Ac.170.00 classified as Thippa Poramboku. 3. In pursuance of that order the Sub-Collector, Gudur, submitted his report in which he stated that during 2001 M/s.I.J.M.Company was granted lease of Acs.4.00 in Sy.No.50 of Chillamanuchenu village of Ozili Mandal for keeping the machinery and storage of road metal for a period of 18 months and that the lessee has established Stone Crusher in that land and it was granted quarry lease for extracting road metal in S.No.103 of Gurramkonda village and it used to bring the raw metal to the crusher point for converting the metal into required shape and measurement and neither the lessee nor any other person extracted metal by any means in Sy.No.50 of Chillamanuchenu village and that the lessee has removed the crusher from the land in S.No.50 of Chillamanuchenu village and at present there is no stone crusher in S.No.50 of Chillamanuchenu village and that the lessee is also not extracting road metal in Gurramkonda village at present. In view thereof, this petition becomes infructuous. 4. Hence, the petition is dismissed as infructous. No order as to costs. -------------- 23.01.2008 Cvrk