THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.25420 OF 2007 DATED 17TH FEBRUARY, 2011 BETWEEN Talluri Ramulu and another …Petitioners And The District Collector, (Panchayat Raj Wing), Khammam District at Khammam and others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.25420 OF 2007 ORDER: The petitioners are residents of Sridhara Village of Burgumpahad Mandal, Khammam District. Their cause for complaint in the present writ petition was that the respondent authorities were undertaking widening of the existing Panchayat Road from Sridhara Cross Roads to Nagaram, abutting the petitioners’ lands in Survey No.379/a of Sridhara Village, Burgumpahad Mandal, and in the process their land was being taken without following the due procedure laid down by law. Their further grievance was that in this exercise, the respondent authorities were also proposing to cut and remove nearly 50 toddy trees standing on their lands. This Court, by interim order dated 29.11.2007, directed status quo obtaining as on that date to be maintained. In the counter filed on behalf of the respondents, the Assistant Executive Engineer, PR, Burgumpahad Mandal, Khammam District, the third respondent herein, stated that the authorities were not encroaching upon the agricultural patta lands of the petitioners and on the other hand, they were only taking up upgradation of the existing road situated in Survey No.379/a of the Village. He unequivocally denied the petitioners’ contention that road widening was being taken up through the petitioners’ lands. As regards the removal of the trees, he stated that as per the report dated 18.01.2008 of the Tahsildar, Burgumpahad, all the toddy trees were standing in the existing cart track in Survey Nos.376 and 380 and not in the lands of the petitioners in Survey No.379/a of the Village. He further stated that the authorities did not cut the toddy trees. Taking into account the averments made in the counter affidavit, this Court, by order dated 06.12.2007, made it clear that the respondents could proceed with the upgradation work without taking up road widening work. In the light of the aforestated sequence of events, it is clear that the petitioners rushed to the Court on mere apprehensions. The counter filed by the authorities demonstrates that there was no threat to the petitioners’ lands and that only upgradation of the existing road was taken up. The petitioners’ grievance with regard to the cutting of the trees is also proved to be baseless. In that view of the matter, no cause arises for adjudication in this writ petition. Needless to state, in the event the respondent authorities seek to widen the existing road in such a manner as to adversely affect the petitioners’ patta lands, they would necessarily have to follow the due procedure laid down by law. Subject to the above observation, the Writ Petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J. 17TH FEBRUARY, 2011. VGSR