IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 16429 of 2008 Between: Dontha Krishna S/o. Subbaiah R/o. Rayavaram Village, Markapur Mandal, Prakasam District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by Principal Secretary to Revenue (Land Acquisition) Department, Secretariat, Saifabad, Hyderabad. 2 The District Collector, Prakasam District at Ongole. 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer-Cum-Land Acquisition Officer, Markapur, Prakasam District. 4 The Tahildar, Markapur Mandal, Prakasam District. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue a writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in insisting the petitioner to vacate from his land of Ac 2.08 cents covered by Sy.No. 80/2 of Rayavaram Village, for providing house sites to weaker sections people without notice and without following due process of law as illegal, irregular, arbitrary without jurisdiction violative of the principles of natural justice and oﬀends articles 14, 21 and 300-A of Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents not to disposses the petitioner from the land and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.NIMMAGADDA SATYANARAYANA Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.16429 OF 2008 ORAL ORDER: The petitioner states that he was assigned the land to an extent of Ac.2.08 cents situated in Survey No.80/2 of Rayavaram Village under D-Form patta bearing No.DK/Rc/1139/06/1416 dated 30.12.2006 and since then he has been cultivating the said land and eking out his livelihood. Now the grievance of the petitioner is that the respondents, without issuing any notice and without following the procedure prescribed under law, are trying to evict him from the land in question for providing house sites to weaker sections, which is illegal and arbitrary. Hence, he ﬁled present writ petition seeking appropriate directions. This Court on 30.07.2008, while ordering notice before admission, directed the parties to maintain status quo. Today, when the matter is taken up for admission, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue, on instructions, submitted that the fourth respondent-Tahsildar has neither insisted the petitioner to vacate from the land in question for providing house sites to weaker sections nor issued any notice in that regard and that the petitioner has ﬁled the present writ petition only on imaginary grounds. Recording the said submissions made by the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Revenue, the writ petition is closed. No costs. ______________ N.V.RAMANA, J. Date: 13.08.2008 VGSR