1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY AT GOA PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION WRIT PETITON NO. 20 OF 201 1. Communidade of Calangute, Duly represented by its Attorney, Mr. Antonio Francisco A. De Souza, R/o Naikavado, Calangute, Bardez Goa. … Petitioner V e r s u s 1. The State of Goa, through the Chief Secretary, Alto Porvorim, Bardez Goa. 2. Director of Panchayats Government of Goa, 3rd Floor, 3rd lift, Junta House, Panaji Goa. 3. Dy. Director of Panchayats Directorate of Panchayats Government of Goa, 3rd Floor, 3rd lift, Junta House, Panaji Goa. 4. Block Development Officer Mamlatdar Building, Mapusa Goa. 5. Chief Town Planner, Town and Country Planning Department, Mapusa Goa. 6. Town Planner, Town and Country Planning Department, Mapusa. 2 7. The Secretary, Village Panchayat of Calangute, Calangute. 8. The Collector, North Goa, Panaji. 9. Dy. Collector and SDO, Mapusa Goa. 10.The Mamlatdar, At Mapusa, Bardez Goa. 11.The Administrator of Communidades, North Zone, Bardez Goa. 12.Mr. Ben Saldanha Managing Director of M/s Saldanha Developers Pvt. Ltd. .. Respondents Mr. Rohit Bras De Sa, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. V. Rodrigues, Additional Government Advocate for respondent nos. 1 to 6, 8 to 10. Mr. A. N. S. Nadkarni, Senior Advocate with Mr. H. D. Naik, Advocate for respondent no.7. Mr. J. E. Coelho Pereira, Senior Advocate with Mr. V. Braganza, Advocate for respondent no.12. CORAM : S. A. BOBDE & F. M. REIS, JJ. DATE : 21 st JUNE, 2011 . ORAL JUDGMENT ( Per S. A. BOBDE, J) Rule. Rule, returnable forthwith. Heard by 3 consent of the parties. 2. Mr. V. Rodrigues, learned Additional Government Advocate for respondent – Collector of North Goa states that the Government of Goa has written a letter dated 03.06.2011 to the Collector of North Goa, Panaji, to examine and take action about the allegations of the attorney of the petitioners about the encroachment on the public nalla which is the subject matter of the present petition. Learned Additional Government Advocate further states that the Collector of North Goa will act on this letter and remove the alleged encroachment, if any, in accordance with law, within a period of six months. Rule is made absolute in above terms. No order as to costs. S. A. BOBDE , J F. M. REIS, J at*