IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE NINETH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.27000 of 2010 Between: Granite Mart Ltd., Venkatapur Village, Bhrahamanapally Panchayat, Toopran Mandal, Medak District. ..... Petitioner AND The District Collector, Medak District at Sangareddy & another. .....Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri C. Pratap Reddy Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Revenue The Court made the following: THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.27000 of 2010 ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of respondent No.2 in obstructing the road to the petitioner’s factory situated in Sy.Nos.161, 162, 167 and 170 of Venkatapur Village, Brahamanpally Panchayat, Toopran Mandal, Medak District, as illegal and arbitrary. I have heard Sri C. Pratap Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue. The petitioner has pleaded that it is the rightful owner of the land mentioned in the above survey numbers and that a factory has been constructed over the said land. It is the further pleaded case of the petitioner that respondent No.2 is interfering with the approach road to its factory premises on the ground that the same is a shikam land vested in the Government. The petitioner asserted that the entire land, including the approach road, falls in the abovementioned four survey numbers and no part of the approach road forms part of shikam land. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue, on instructions, submitted that while respondent No.2 has not been interfering with the petitioner’s possession of any part of the land in Sy.Nos.161, 162, 167 and 170, as the latter has laid approach road over the land in Sy.No.160, which is classified as shikam land and vested in the Government, it is being asked not to use the said land. As rightly pointed out by the learned counsel for the petitioner whether the land over which the approach road has been laid by the petitioner forms part of Sy.No.160 or the other four survey numbers referred to above requires to be adjudicated. At any rate, if respondent No.2 feels that the petitioner is in occupation of the shikam land, he can initiate appropriate action under the provisions of the relevant statute. Unless such procedure is followed, respondent No.2 cannot interfere with the petitioner’s use of the approach road on the purported ground that the same forms part of shikam land. In the premises as above, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondents not to interfere with the petitioner’s occupation of the approach road, without following due process of law. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition, WPMP.Nos.34507 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 09.11.2010 ES