HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO.17996 of 2007 Dated: 06-11-2007 Between: Kandula Ramam And another ..... Pet AND The Special Dy.Collector (L.A.), Polavaram, Yalamanchili, Vishakapatnam. .....Resp Counsel for the petitioner : Sri V.V.Narayana Rao. Counsel for the respondents : A.G.P. for Land Acquisition HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.17996 of 2007 O R D E R: This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus seeking a direction to respondent not to dispossess the petitioners without following due process of law. At the hearing, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Land Acquisition produced a copy of the letter addressed to him by the Special Deputy Collector, Land Acquisition, Polavaram, Elamanchili, with a copy served on the learned counsel for the petitioners, that proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act 1894 were already initiated with the approval of draft notification under Section 4(1) of the Act on 19.6.2007 and publication of the same on 18.8.2007 in the daily newspapers. In view of the same the cause in the writ petition does not survive. However, liberty is given to the petitioners to question the initiation of land acquisition proceedings if they so choose by availing appropriate remedy. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed as infructuous. ___________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:06.11.2007 mdaa