HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.6840 OF 2010 ORDER: Heard Sri S.V.R. Subrahmanyam, Learned Counsel for the petitioners, and Sri N. Ranga Reddy, Learned Standing Counsel for the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation and, at their request, the Writ Petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. In this writ petition the petitioner questions the action of the respondent in seeking to demolish Flat Nos.601 and 602 in Radha Madhava Towers situated in T.S. No.116, Block No.4 of Maharanipeta Ward of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, Visakhapatnam without adhering to the procedure established by law. The petitioner would assert that, though an application for regularization of the deviations in construction, was submitted under BPS/Zone-III/Ward-19/Sl.No.645 by the builder, and the said application is still pending consideration of the competent authority, the respondents were initiating steps for demolition of the property in question. Sri N. Ranga Reddy, Learned Standing Counsel for the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, on instructions, would submit that the petitioners’ apprehension that their flats would be demolished is without basis; the petitioners had submitted an application for regularization on 16.04.2008 well within the time limit prescribed under the Building Penalisation Scheme; and the Corporation would not initiate steps for demolition till the application, under the Building Penalisation Scheme, is considered and orders are passed thereupon. Recording the submission of the Learned Standing Counsel, and since the cause in the writ petition does not survive, the Writ Petition is dismissed. However, in the circumstances, without costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J Date:26.03.2010 Usd/mrkr