THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.12158 OF 2010 ORDER: Heard Sri S.S. Viswanetra Ravi, Learned Counsel for the petitioner, the Learned Government Pleader for Municipal Administration and Sri N. Ranga Reddy, Learned Standing Counsel for the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation. At their request, the Writ Petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. Petitioners are aggrieved by the action of the respondents in seeking to demolish their building for the purposes of road widening. It is their case that they had jointly purchased an extent of 405 square yards of land in plot No.10 in C.B.M. Compound, Visakhapatnam under registered sale deed dated 22.09.1987 and to have constructed a ground floor building in the year 1991, and the first and second floors in the year 2001, after obtaining permission by paying the prescribed fee to the 2nd respondent. The petitioners also assert that they have been taxes to the 2nd respondent regularly and to have lost an extent of 5 ft x 57 ft of land for the purpose of laying drainage lines in the year 2001. While matters stood thus, officials of the respondent corporation are said to have visited the petitioners’ plot on 10.05.2010 and to have threatened to demolish the structures thereat for the purpose of road widening after informing the petitioner that he would be entitled to have a larger Floor Space Index. The petitioners’ grievance is that the procedure contemplated under Section 146 and 147 of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 has not been followed by the respondent and that their action, in seeking to demolish the building, is arbitrary and illegal. Counsel on either side would agree that the subject matter of this Writ Petition is covered by an order of this Court in W.P. No.7563 of 2010 dated 06.04.2010. Following the said judgment, the respondents are directed not to dispossess the petitioner of the property in question, or to demolish the structures thereon, except in accordance with Sections 146 and 147 of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 as extended to the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. Date: 31.05.2010 ___________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J MRKR