THE HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU and THE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR Dated: 20-09-2011 WRIT PETITION No. 26186 OF 2011 Between: Chintapalli Srinivas ... PETITIONER AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep., by its Principal Secretary (Roads and Buildings), Secretariat, Hyderabad and seven others …RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU and THE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No. 26186 OF 2011 ORDER: (per the Hon’ble the Chief Justice Shri Nisar Ahmad Kakru) By medium of this public interest litigation, alignment of national highway is questioned. Responding to the writ petition, the learned Government Pleader appearing for respondent Nos.1 to 4 submits that matter of alignment had become subject matter of several writ petitions which came to be disposed of by a common judgment upholding the alignment and the judgment stands questioned through Writ Appeal No. 676 of 2011 and batch. His contention is that the writ petitioners – appellants in the above said writ petitions/writ appeals have failed to get an interim direction and the petition on hand is an endeavour on their part to have interference with the alignment by this Court by an indirect mode and aims at promotion of individual interest of affected land owner, through the petitioner herein, alleging public interest. We have gone through the record. A few inter se communications of the department have been annexed to seek the alteration of the alignment. The communications date back to 2006 and 2007, apparently much before finalization of alignment, obviously, the said communications were within the knowledge of the authorities when final decision was taken which would mean that contents thereof could not work against the approved alignment. Other than the communications, there is no material which would persuade us to take a view contrary to the one taken by the statutory authorities. Dismissed. VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J NISAR AHMAD KAKRU, CJ 08-09-2011 K. Shyleshi