IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR PRESENT HON'BLE SRI DEVINDER GUPTA, CHIEF JUSTICE and HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION NO : 12199 of 2004 Between: Forum for Social Awareness(Regd.No.999/04), Represented by its Joint Secretary, K.Rama Rao S/o Late. K.S.K.Murthy, aged 40 years, occ: Advocate , R/o 5-4-27, Distillary Road, Secunderabad ..... PETITIONER AND 1.Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Secretariat, Hyderabad 2.District Collector, Office Situated at Eluru, Town, West Godavari District 3.District Collector Office Situated at Guntur, Town, Guntur Dist 4.District Collector, Office Situated at Vijayawada Town Krishna District 5.District Collector Office Situated at Khammam Town Khammam 6.District Collector Office Situated at Nirmal Town Adilabad District 7.District Collector Office Situated at Mahaboobnagar Town Mahaboobnagar District 8.District Collector Office Situated at Kurnool Townn Kurnool District 9.District Collector Office Situated at Nalgonda Town Nalgonda 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 will be pleased to issue a writ, order or orders more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus to direct the respondent No.1-9 herein to provide pure and safe drinking water to the people of West Godavari, Guntur , Krishna , Khammam, Adilabad, Mahaboobnagar , Kurnool and Nalgonda Districts, on permanent basis without any interruption and consequently direct the respondents to clamp prohibition on the dealers consuming water from Rivers / Lakes/Tanks for commercial purpose such as manufacturing mineral water /toddy/neera and liquor etc. Counsel for the Petitioner : MR.GOPALA KRISHNA KALANIDHI. Counsel for the Respondents: THE ADVOCATE GENERAL. The Court made the following : ORAL ORDER: ( Per Hon’ble The Chief Justice ) ….. 1 . Petition is based solely on the basis of some newspaper report, authenticity of which is not urged by the petitioner. Petitioner claims to be a forum for social awareness. In case such a forum is genuinely interested in public interest for the betterment of society, at least what is expected for such forum is to come to the court with certain facts and figures, for which they must file appropriate affidavit owning the responsibility for making statement before the court. Only in such like cases, court would definitely like to entertain the petitions in public interest. Such petitions based solely on newspaper reports cannot be entertained. Accordingly writ petition is dismissed. No costs. ____________________ DEVINDER GUPTA. C.J., _____________ G. ROHINI. J., Dated: 15.07.2004. VRK. To 1. The Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Secretariat, Hyderabad 2. The District Collector, Office Situated at Eluru, Town, West Godavari District 3. The District Collector, office Situated at Guntur Town, Guntur Dist 4. The District Collector, Office Situated at Vijayawada Town, Krishna District 5. The District Collector, Office Situated at Khammam Town, Khammam 6.The District Collector, Office Situated at Nirmal Town Adilabad District 7. The District Collector. Office Situated at Mahaboobnagar Town, Mahaboobnagar District 8. The District Collector. Office Situated at Kurnool Town, Kurnool District 9. The District Collector, Office Situated at Nalgonda Town Nalgonda District 10 Two CD copies. 11. 2 CCs to the Advocate-General (OUT). HON’BLE SRI DEVINDER GUPTA, CHIEF JUSTICE AND HON’BLE Ms. JUSTICE G. ROHINI. W.P.NO. 12199 OF 2004. ( Order of the Bench delivered by Hon’ble The Chief Justice ) Dt: 15.07.2004.