THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO. 565 OF 2008 DATED: 18-01-2008 BETWEEN: Syed Magdoom Bukhari, S/o. Peer Basha … Petitioner and State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep.by the District Collector, Kadapa, Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh And another … Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO. 565 OF 2008 ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a writ of Certiorari to quash notification dated 02-09-2007 issued by the District Collector, Kadapa, under Sec.4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894(for short ‘the Act’). Heard Sri A. Srinath, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Land Acquisition. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that though in the impugned notification where under certain property, which fell to the share of the petitioner in the family partition is sought to be acquired, the name of the petitioner is not shown and hence the petitioner filed his objections on 01-10-2007 before respondent No.1. He further submitted that without disposing of the said objections, the respondents are trying to dispossess the petitioner. The provisions of the Land Acquisition Act prescribe specific procedure for acquiring the lands. Unless enquiry under Sec.5-A of the Act is dispensed with, it is incumbent upon the Land Acquisition Officer to hold enquiry and the competent authority to pass orders on the objections filed before the Land Acquisition Officer before proceeding further with the proposed acquisition. In the face of the self-contained scheme under the Act, the submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner that the respondents are threatening to dispossess him even before the completion of the enquiry under Sec.5-A cannot be countenanced. Since the enquiry is allegedly pending, I am not inclined to entertain the writ petition and adjudicate the issues raised in the writ petition on merits. Therefore, the writ petition is dismissed leaving the petitioner free to question the orders if any passed or to be passed by the respondents under Sec.5-A of the Act. It is needless to observe that the respondents cannot dispossess the petitioner without scrupulously following the procedure prescribed under the provisions of the Act. No order as to costs. ___________________________ C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J. Dt: 18-01-2008 Rns