THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.14153 of 2008 Date:26.04.2011 Between: Palla Rama Rao and others ..... Petitioners AND The District Collector, Visakhapatnam and another .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioners: Sri M.Bala Subrahmanyam Counsel for Respondents: Government Pleader for Land Acquisition The Court made the following: ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to set aside the proceedings dated 08.06.2088 of respondent No.2, whereby he has overruled the objections filed by the petitioners under Section 5-A of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’) as illegal and without jurisdiction. At the hearing, Sri M.Bala Subrahmanyam, learned counsel for the petitioners, submitted that since it is the Collector who alone has jurisdiction to deal with and dispose of the objections submitted by the person interested in the land proposed to be acquired under Section 5-A of the Act, respondent No.2 has no jurisdiction to dispose of the objections filed by the petitioners and therefore, the impugned proceedings are without jurisdiction. The learned Government Pleader for Land Acquisition has fairly agreed with the above plea of the learned counsel for the petitioners. In view of the above, the Writ Petition is allowed and the impugned proceedings dated 08.06.2008 are set aside, however, with liberty to respondent No.1 to consider the objections filed by the petitioners afresh and dispose of the same in accordance with law. As a sequel to allowing the writ petition, interim order dated 03.07.2008 is vacated and W.P.M.P.No.18261 of 2008 and W.V.M.P.No.470 of 2009 are disposed of as infructuous. ________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 26th April, 2011 GHN