THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.17021 of 2006 July 06, 2010 Between: Yadlapalli Babu Surendra Prasad, S/o.late Adinarayana Murthy … Petitioner And The District Collector, West Godavari District And others ... Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.17021 of 2006 ORDER: Petitioner’s land admeasuring Acs.0.82 in S.No.70/3 situated at Tyajampudi Village of Devarapalli Mandal in West Godavari District, was sought to be acquired for provision of house sites to weaker sections. The enquiry under Section 5-A of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (the Act) was conducted as directed by this Court in connected writ petition being W.P. No.10551 of 2006 dated 31.5.2006. Thereafter the second respondent by impugned endorsement dated 19.6.2006 rejected the request of petitioners to withdraw acquisition proposals. Assailing the same, present writ petition is filed inter alia on the ground that the authority competent to conduct enquiry under Section 5-A of the Act has no jurisdiction to reject the objections filed during the enquiry. The issue raised in this writ petition is squarely covered by judgment of this Court in Penmetsa Venkata Satya Appala Visweswara Durga Surya Subrahmanya Varma v The Government of Andhra Pradesh[1], wherein it was held as follows. 1. The declaration under Section 6(1) of the Act in all the writ petitions is quashed; 2. All the petitioners are given liberty to make representations/ additional representations raising objections/additional objections within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order; 3. As and when such representations are made as mentioned in clause (ii) above, the concerned RDO shall conduct fresh enquiry after giving an opportunity to all the petitioners, prepare a report and submit the same to the District Collector; 4. After receiving the report on the RDO, the District Collector shall take final decision under Section 5-A of the Act before further proceeding under the Act. If any of the petitioners has any grievance thereafter, they are at liberty to assail the land acquisition proceedings by taking fresh proceedings before the appropriate Forum. In view of the ratio as above, the writ petition is disposed of, setting aside the impugned endorsement and further directing second respondent to submit a report to District Collector, who shall take final decision under Section 5-A of the Act before proceeding further under the Act. This exercise may be completed within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. ________________ (V.V.S. RAO, J) July 06, 2010 YS [1] W.P.Nos.20360 of 2006 and batch, dated 29.9.2006.