THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY Writ Petition No.22143 of 2011 Dated 14th October, 2011 Between: Murram Satyanarayana and others …Petitioners And The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep.by its Principal Secretary, Forest Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others …Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: Sri Mummaneni Srinivasa Rao Counsel for respondent Nos.2, 4 & 5: AGP for Forest Counsel for respondent No.3: Sri P.Raghavender Reddy Counsel for respondent Nos.6 & 7: AGP for Revenue Counsel for respondent No.8: AGP for Irrigation The Court made the following: ORDER: This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “…to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents authorities in trying to dispossess the petitioners from the reserved forest lands situated in Reserved Forest 5 KMs far to the (Unsurveyed and Unrecognised Village) Thunikicheruvu Block, Singaram Panchayathi, Dummugudem Mandal, Khammam District, without following the procedure prescribed under Forest Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (Act 2 of 2007) and Rules 2007 including Forest Act, 1967 is illegal and void and opposed to Articles 14, 19, 21 and 300-A of the Constitution of India and consequently to direct the respondents to grant pattas to the petitioners in the said lands in question as per the above said Forest Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (Act 2 of 2007) and Rules 2007.” At the hearing, Sri Mummaneni Srinivasa Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners, seeks permission of the Court to withdraw the writ petition. This request of the learned counsel is accepted and the writ petition is accordingly dismissed as withdrawn. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, interim order, dated 05.08.2011, shall stand vacated and W.P.M.P.No.26995 of 2011 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 14th October, 2011 VGB