THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO.7822 OF 2010 Dated 8th April, 2010 Between: M/s.Emboy Mining Works (P) Ltd., Rep. by its Director K.Ravi Kumar Reddy …Petitioner And 1.The Government of India and 4 others. …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner: Smt.N.Shoba Counsel for Respondent No.1: ----- Counsel for Respondent Nos.2 & 4: GP for Mines and Geology Counsel for Respondent Nos.3 & 5: GP for Forests The Court made the following Order: The short and simple grievance of the petitioner in this Writ Petition is that though it has made application on 16-09-2008 for prospecting license, respondent Nos.2 and 4 are not forwarding the same to respondent No.1 for forest clearance in terms of G.O.Ms.No.181, Industries and Commerce (Mines-I) Department, dated 28-05-1998. After hearing the arguments of the learned Counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Mines and Geology, I am of the opinion that respondent Nos.2 to 4 are under obligation to forward the petitioner’s application for the purpose of obtaining clearance under Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 to respondent No.1 as per the scheme envisaged under G.O.Ms.No.181, dated 28-05-1998. In this view of the matter, the Writ Petition is disposed of with the direction to respondent Nos.2 to 4 to forward the petitioner’s application along with necessary reports to respondent No.1 within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, WPMP.No.10046 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 8th April, 2010 lur