IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.17269 of 2009 Between: Maddi Lakshmaiah ..... PETITIONER AND The Union of India, rep.by its Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi and others. .....RESPONDENTS ORDER: The petitioner is a Tobacco processing Company. It is the case of the petitioner that it is running its unit in the lands in question, which are abutting NH-5. The petitioner states that respondents 2 and 3, namely, National Highways Authority of India, without following the procedure contemplated under the National Highways Act, 1956, for acquisition, are widening the existing NH-5, which is affecting the lands in question. The matter was adjourned on three occasions to enable the learned Standing Counsel for respondent Nos.2 and 3 to get instructions. Today, when the matter is taken up, Sri S.S.Varma, the learned Standing Counsel, submitted that the respondents are not taking the land of the petitioner for the purpose of widening the road, that the petitioner only under apprehension has filed this writ petition and that even they require any land of the petitioner for widening the road, they issue notification and follow the procedure prescribed under the National Highways Act, 1956 for acquisition of the required land. In view of the above statement made by the learned Standing Counsel for respondent Nos.2 and 3, no orders need be passed in the writ petition. However, placing the submission of the learned Standing Counsel on record, the writ petition is closed. ___________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Date:27.08.2009 VGB