HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY] W.P.No.3051 of 2007 Date : 24-6-2011 Between : Mukkapati Narasimha Rao .. Petitioner And The District Collector, Machilipatnam, Krishna District and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioner : Sri P.Nagendra Reddy Counsel for respondent Nos.1 to 3 : G.P. for Land Acquisition Counsel for respondent No.4 : None appeared Counsel for respondent Nos.5 & 6: Sri S.Lakshminarayana Reddy The court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a mandamus declaring the action of respondent Nos.1 and 2 in issuing notification under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short “the Act”) for acquiring Ac.21-00 of land of respondent Nos. 5 and 6 in R.S.No.283/1 and 284/1 of Chandarlapadu village and Mandal, Krishna District as arbitrary and illegal. The petitioner claims to be a devotee of respondent Nos.5 and 6- Temples. In his affidavit, the petitioner has stated that the procedure followed by respondent Nos.1 and 2 in acquiring the lands of respondent Nos.5 and 6 by dispensing with enquiry under Section 5-A of the Act is bad. The petitioner has further stated that an award was also passed for a sum of Rs.15,75,000/-. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties, I am of the opinion that this Writ Petition filed by a purported devotee questioning the land acquisition proceedings cannot be maintained in strict sense as he does not have locus to file the Writ Petition. If at all, it is the management of respondent Nos.5 and 6-Temples which is the real aggrieved party. Moreover, on the petitioner’s own averments, an award was passed but he has not chosen to question the same in the Writ Petition and no reasons have been mentioned in his affidavit for his failure to do so. I am therefore of the opinion that validity of the acquisition proceedings cannot be examined at the instance of the petitioner, who failed to establish his standing to file the Writ Petition. The Writ Petition is therefore dismissed. As a sequel, interim order dated 19-2-2007 is vacated and WPMP Nos.3926/2007, 9758/2007 and 20138/2007 are disposed of as infructuous. _________________________ Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy Date : 24-6-2011 AM