IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.25315 of 2001 Between: 1 Akula Venkateswara Rao, S/o. Late Dharmaiah, R/o. Tallapuram, Unguturu Mandal, West Godavari District. 2 Akula Padmavathi, W/o. Venkateswara Rao, R/o. Tallapuram, Unguturu Mandal, West Godavari District. 3 Akula Nageswara Rao, S/o. Venkateswara Rao, R/o. Tallapuram, Unguturu Mandal, West Godavari District. ..... PETITIONERS AND The Gram Panchayat of Tallapuram, Rep. by its Sarpanch, Unguturu Mandal, West Godavari District. .....RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.T.DURGA PRASADA RAO The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “For the reasons stated in the accompanying affidavit, the petitioners herein pray that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue notice, call for records and declare that the action of the respondent gram panchayat in cutting 10 teak trees and ten Jam oil trees belonging to the petitioners existing on the eastern site of their site situate to the south of the panchayat road in the 3rd Ward of Tallapuram Village, Unguturu Mandal in the last week of October, 2001 and removing Mangalore tiles of the roof of the shed belonging to them situate in the north west corner of the said site on 6-12-2001 and the proposed action of the respondent to demolish the remaining part of the said shed which is shown in the plan annexed hereto, without getting the road and the road margins abetting the said site on its north surveyed and without recourse to due process of law are arbitrary, illegal, molafide and violative of the principles of natural justice and the provisions of Article 300-A of the Constitution of India and direct the respondent to pay to the Petitioners a sum of Rs.15,000/- as compensation and allow the Writ Petition with costs, by issuing Writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate order o writ or direction.” At the hearing, Sri T.Durga Prasada Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the cause in the writ petition has become infructuous. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed as such. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition as infructuous, interim order, dated 12.12.2001 is vacated and WPMP.No.32040 of 2001 is dismissed. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 27th FEBRUARY, 2009. kvni