IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF AUGUST, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.5136 of 2001 Between: Smt. Musunuru Ranganayakamma … Petitioner AND The District Collector, Guntur District, Guntur, & another. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri G. Uday Bhaskar for Sri K. Ravindra Kumar Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Land Acquisition This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.5136 of 2001 ORDER:- This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in seeking to acquire the land admeasuring Ac.3.00 cents comprised in Sy.No.337/1/B of Rayapudi Village, Thulluru Mandal, Guntur District under notiﬁcation dated 19.01.2000 issued under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1984 (for short, ‘the Act’) as illegal. In the counter-aﬃdavit ﬁled by the Revenue Divisional Oﬃcer, Guntur, it is inter alia stated that draft notiﬁcation under Section 4(1) of the Act was published in Gazette on 19.02.2000 and in the newspapers on 31.01.2000 and 30.04.2000 and that draft declaration under Section 6 of the Act was published in the Gazette on 02.03.2000 and in the newspapers on 15.02.2000 and 16.02.2000. It is further stated that as no funds are available, the respondents have decided not to go for fresh acquisition and allow Section 6 declaration lapsed. At the hearing, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Land Acquisition, on instructions, stated that even after ﬁling of the counter-aﬃdavit on 14.08.2001, no award has been passed till today. In view of the same, by operation of Section 11-A of the Act, the acquisition proceedings have got lapsed. The writ petition is accordingly allowed. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition in the manner indicated above, WPMP.No.6556 of 2001 ﬁled by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 05.08.2008 ES