THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.7467 of 2002 Dated:13.02.2008 Between: Ponnam Ramaiah, and others. …Petitioners and The State of A.P., Rep.by its Secretary, Irrigation, Secretariat, Hyderabad, and others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.7467 of 2002 ORDER: The petitioners are the brothers and cousins. Their land admeasuring Acs.7.37 guntas in Survey No.578 situated at Hasnapur Village of Karimnagar Mandal was acquired for submergence of Lower Manair Dam (LMD). The petitioners made a representation on 06.01.2002. According to them, though the land was acquired, the same continued to be under the cultivation and it has not come under submergence. Their further case is that the land, which remained under the cultivation even after Award, is being proposed to be allotted to the victims of Naxalite hit families of the Police. Therefore, they request the Government not to allot the land to such category persons and reconvey the land to them. A counter affidavit is filed opposing the Writ Petition, inter alia, stating that the land has already been allotted to bereaved families of Police persons killed in encounters/land mines, vide proceedings of the Mandal Revenue Officer dated 31.12.2001. Now that the land is already allotted to third parties, nothing remains in the Writ Petition. Even otherwise, when once land is acquired, it is always open to the Government to use it for any other public purpose, and the owner, who has been paid, has no right to seek reconveyance of land (see Northern Indian Glass Industries v Jaswant Singh[1] and Government of A.P. v Syed Akbar[2]) The Writ Petition is, therefore, dismissed. No costs. ____________ (V.V.S.RAO, J) 13.02.2008 vs [1] (2003)1 SCC 335 [2] (2005)1 SCC 558 = AIR 2005 SC 492