IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE NINETH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.17119 of 2008 Between: Posimsetti Ranga Rao, S/o. Ram Murthy, R/o. Adavikolanu, Nidamarru, W.G. District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The District collector, W.G. District, Eluru. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, W.G. District, Eluru. 3 The Tahsildar, Nidamarru Mandal, Nidamarru, W.G. District. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondents 2 and 3 in taking away the petitioner’s land in an extent of Ac.2.00 cents situated at Sy.No.14/3, and Ac.0.18 cents in sy.No.4/2 situated at Naganamilli edaramachandrapuram Revenue Villages, Nidamarru Mandal, West Godavari District, as illegal, arbitrary and without following the process of law and violative of Article 300-A of the Constitution of India. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.B.DEVADAS Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.17119 OF 2008 ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled by the petitioner stating that he is the owner and possessor of the lands in an extent of Ac.2.00 in Sy.No.14/3 and Ac.0.18 cents in Sy.No.4/2 situated at Naganamilli and Pedaramachandrapuram Revenue Villages, Nidamarru Mandal of West Godavari District, and is in peaceful possession of the said lands for the last forty years, but the respondents are trying to evict him from the said lands without following the due process of law. On 07.08.2008, while issuing notice before admission, this Court ordered status quo to be maintained and granted time to the Government Pleader for Revenue for filing counter. Today, when the matter came up for hearing, learned Government Pleader for Revenue produced before this Court written instructions dated 08.08.2008 submitted by the Tahsildar, Nadamarru, to the eﬀect that the subject lands are Government lands and there are encroachments in the said lands and that action would be taken to remove the encroachments made by the petitioner duly following the procedure as per Land Encroachment Act, whenever necessary. The learned Government Pleader for Revenue also submitted that the encroachments would be removed only after issuing notice and following due process of law. Recording the above submission of the Government Pleader that encroachments would be removed only after following due process of law, the writ petition is closed. No order as to costs. _____________ N.V. RAMANA,J 9th September, 2008 MSV/IBL