IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF AUGUST, TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.18062 of 2011 Between: Fishermen Cooperative Society Pothireddypeta, Dubbaka Mandal Medak District. … Petitioner And The Assistant Director of Fisheries, Medak District & another. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioner: Ms. M. Vidyavathi Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Fisheries This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.18062 of 2011 ORDER:- This Writ Petition is filed with the grievance that the respondents have not taken follow up action despite the endorsement made by the Hon’ble Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Fisheries and Veterinary University in order to prevent the outsiders from interfering with the fishing activity of the petitioner society. The grievance of the petitioner is that even though some rank outsiders, who are unconnected with it, have been unauthorizedly interfering with the fishing operation of the petitioner and trying to take away the fishery wealth from three tanks, namely; Pedda Cheruvu, Yellamma Cheruvu and Reddy Cheruvu in respect of which fishery rights were conferred on the petitioner, the respondents have not taken any steps to prevent the said persons. The petitioner has approached the Hon’ble Minister with a representation, dated 07.06.2011, on which the latter made the following endorsement: “A.D. Medak. Pl. examine and take necessary action and do justice.” Feeling aggrieved by the inaction of the respondents in implementing the order of the Hon’ble Minister, the petitioner filed the present Writ Petition. In my opinion, if the respondents find that some miscreants are interfering with the petitioner’s activity and trying to take away the fishery wealth unauthorizedly, they need to take appropriate action according to law. Inasmuch as there is already a direction issued by the Hon’ble Minister for taking such action, the Writ Petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondents to implement the order of the Hon’ble Minister by taking necessary measures according to law to ensure that the fishery rights of the petitioner are not violated by unauthorised persons. The petitioner is also permitted to avail the common law remedies in the event persons unconnected with its affairs attempt to take away the fishery wealth. Subject to the above directions, the Writ Petition is disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, WPMP.No.21734 of 2011 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 08.08.2011 ES