HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.24658 of 2009 ORDER: The petitioner purchased a plot of 242 sq.yards in Sy.No.237 of Piduguralla Revenue village through document dated 03/11/2008. The premises were also assessed to tax by granting house number viz., 19-1/7. The grievance of the petitioner is that the respondents are trying to lay pipeline across the plot. The respondents filed a counter-affidavit. According to them, the owners of the plots in that very survey number have shown the area constituting the plot purchased by the petitioner as a road. Reference is made to many sale deeds that have been executed at different points of time. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel for the respondents. The Municipality has its own development plan approved by the Director of Town Planning. In case, any vacant land is to be developed, it can be only on the basis of a sanctioned lay out. It is only when a lay out is sanctioned, that the road shown in it would vest in the municipality and they can be utilized for public purposes. To a specific question put by this Court, learned Standing Counsel stated that no lay out was granted in respect of land in Sy.No.237. Unless the lay out is sanctioned, no part of the land can be treated as road. Even now, the municipality can take necessary steps to verify whether the land in Sy.No.237 including the plot purchased out of it or part of a sanctioned lay out. The laying of pipeline can be only in accordance with the lay out that may be so sanctioned that too across the roads that vest in the municipality. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY, J 22nd December, 2009 SKM