IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI W.P.NO.3946 of 2011. Date:09-03-2011 Between:- Koduru Ganga Bhavani and another ..Petitioners And The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep.by its Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Secretariat, Hyderabad and another. .. Respondents ORDER:- This writ petition has been filed to declare the action of the respondents in proposing to dispossess the petitioners from their respective properties without following due process of law as illegal and arbitrary. 2. The petitioners claim to be the owners of house property bearing D.Nos.2-18-8/1 and 2-18-8/1R situated at Vidyadharapuram, Vijayawada. It is stated that the said houses are assessed to municipal taxes and charges and the petitioners have been paying the same. It appears that in 2009, a proposal was mooted by the second respondent-Corporation for widening Kabela road and Urmila Subbarao Nagar road. For the said purpose, a notice dated 21-10-2009 was issued to the land owners concerned for their consent. Against the said notice, some of the land owners approached this Court by filing W.P.No.25992 of 2009 and the same was disposed of by order dated 01-12-2009 directing that the petitioners therein should not be dispossessed except by due process of law, in case the petitioners express their unwillingness to part with their lands in the negotiations, if any, held by them. It was also made clear that it was open to the respondents to initiate the proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 if the lands therein along with the structures, if any, raised thereon, are required for the purpose of road widening. 3. In the instant case, it is the grievance of the petitioners that since they were not parties to the earlier writ petition, their possession has been interfered with without acquiring their lands along with the structures in accordance with law. The petitioners have therefore filed this writ petition for the aforesaid relief. 4. Heard Sri Kiran Tirumalasetti, learned counsel for the petitioners and Smt G.Jhansi, learned Standing Counsel for the second respondent and with the consent of both the parties, this writ petition is disposed of at the stage of admission. 5. From the pleadings, it appears that there is a proposal to widen the aforesaid roads and in that process, the properties situated on the road are likely to be affected. That being the case, the petitioners are not liable to be dispossessed, if they are not willing to part away with their properties except by invoking the relevant provisions of law. 6. In the circumstances, this writ petition is disposed of directing the second respondent not to dispossess the petitioners from their respective properties without following due process of law. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________ NOUSHAD ALI, J 09th March, 2011 Note:- Furnish C.C. by 14-03-2011. B/O AMD