THE HON'BLE Ms. JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No. 17665 OF 2007 Dated: 20.09.2011 Between: Smt. Chennamaneni Anantha Lakshmi and 3 others ..... PETITIONERS AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh and 4 others ..... RESPONDENTS The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE Ms. JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No. 17665 OF 2007 ORDER : The petitioners herein claim to be the owners and possessors of different extents of land situated in survey Nos.748, 749 and 755 of Mankal Village, Maheswaram Mandal, Ranga Reddy District. This writ petition is filed seeking a declaration that the action of the respondents in acquiring the said lands of the petitioners, is arbitrary and illegal. The material available on record shows that the notification under Section 4 (1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, ‘the Act’) was published on 14.07.2004 followed by a declaration under Section 6 of the Act dated 19.08.2005. When the matter is taken up for consideration, it is brought to my notice by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the acquisition under the very same notification dated 14.07.2004 was the subject matter of Writ Petition Nos.13441 and 13449 of 2007 and after hearing both the parties, this Court by order dated 18.07.2011 allowed the writ petitions with the following directions: “1) The notifications in respect of acquisition of the lands belonging to petitioner No.3 in Writ Petition No.13441 of 2007 and petitioner No.5 in Writ Petition No.13449 of 2007 are quashed; 2) insofar as the lands belonging to the remaining petitioners are concerned, respondent No.2 and 3 shall decide as to whether they would like to go ahead with the proposed project, viz., establishment of township, within three months from today; 3) in the event they decide and proceed with the establishment of township, they shall intimate the same to the petitioners and, in such an event, they shall be free to utilize the lands subject to the terms and conditions upon which the petitioners have given their consents; and 4) conversely, if either they decide not to proceed with the establishment of township or they fail to intimate the same to the petitioners within the above stipulated time, the lands of these petitioners also stand excluded from the purview of acquisition and thereafter the petitioners shall be free to utilize their lands by exercising absolute rights over the same.” The fact that the issue involved in this writ petition is squarely covered by the order passed in the above writ petitions is not disputed by the learned counsel appearing for the respondents. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is allowed in terms of the directions 2 to 4 in Writ Petition Nos.13441 and 13449 of 2007, dated 18.07.2011. No costs. ​ ____________ G. ROHINI, J Date: 20.09.2011 Ivd