IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 14958 of 2008 Between: Chitluri Venkateswara Rao S/o. Subba Rao Chintalapudi Village & Mandal, W.G. District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Revenue Divisional Officer, West Godavari District. 2 The Tahsildar, Chintalapudi Mandal, W.G. District. 3 The Executive Engineer, Roads & Buildings, Chintalapudi Division, Eluru. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.S.APPADHARA REDDY Counsel for Respondent Nos.1 & 2: GP FOR REVENUE Counsel for Respondent No.3: GP FOR ROADS AND BUILDINGS The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in seeking to dispossess the petitioner from his land comprised in R.S.No.913/10 of Chintalapudi Village and Mandal, West Godavari District without following due process of law, as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner claims to be the absolute owner of land admeasuring 611 sq.yards in R.S.No.913/10 of Chintalapudi Village and Mandal, West Godavari District having succeeded to it through his father, who purchased the said land under registered sale deeds, dated 02.05.1947 and 25.05.1967. The petitioner averred that he constructed a building on the said land in the year 1994 after obtaining permission from the Gram Panchayat and has been living in the said property since then. He alleged that the respondents decided to widen the existing road and came to the petitioner’s house three days back and asked the petitioner to give his consent for taking up road widening work. He refused to give his consent and that in spite of his protest, the respondents marked on the petitioner’s walls in red colour showing that the property will be demolished to a width of 5 feet. The grievance of the petitioner is that when the petitioner is not willing to give his consent for giving away his property, it is not permissible for the respondents to take away the same without following due process of law. Having regard to the above mentioned averments contained in the writ petition, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondents not to dispossess the petitioner or demolish any part of the structure raised by the petitioner on his patta land for the purpose of road widening without following due process of law. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WPMP.No.19330 of 2008 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 11th JULY, 2008. Note: issue operative portion by ‘wire’ at party’s costs. B/o kvni