HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.3145 OF 2011 ORDER: The Petitioners claim to be the residents of Christian Colony of Prathap Nagar, Warangal City. They plead that the respondents are attempting to widen the road by taking parts of their properties, without initiating the proceedings in accordance with law or by paying compensation. The relevant facts that lead to the apprehension of the petitioners are stated. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Government Pleader for Revenue, learned Government Pleader for Municipal Administration & Urban Development and the learned Standing Counsel for the Municipal Corporation. 3. The respondents 1 and 2 are conferred with the power to lay the roads and to widen the existing ones. However, if any property owned by a private individual is needed for widening the road, it has to be acquired by following the procedure prescribed under Sections 145 and 146 of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 (for short ‘HMC Act’). There are also instances where the affected party is conferred with certain additional benefit, in case, the land needed for the road is given free of cost to the Municipal Corporation. These, however, are the monitories which taken into account, as and when proposal is muted for widening of the road. 4. Hence, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the respondents to follow the procedure prescribed by law before any property owned by the petitioners is taken for widening of the road. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J February 11, 2011. Note: Issue CC in three days. B/O. KTL