THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.14512 of 2007 ORDER: It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners and admitted to by the learned counsel for the respondents that the subject matter of this writ petition is squarely covered by the judgment rendered by a Division Bench of this Court in W.P. No.18138 of 2007 dated 09.11.2007, which was allowed holding as under: “In view of the submission of learned Standing Counsel for the Municipality that they will not resort to the agreements, which appear to be sham, to which we have made reference hereinabove, we allow this writ petition and direct that the property of the petitioners shall not be taken in pursuance of these agreements. However, the State shall be free to acquire the land in terms of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.” In the circumstances, following the above judgment and for the reasons mentioned therein, this writ petition is also allowed by and in terms of the directions as extracted above. There shall be no order as to costs. N.V. RAMANA, J Date: 30.06.2010 va