IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY FRIDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF JUNE, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY WRIT PETITION No.21437 of 2005 Between: I.L.Narayana Rao and seventeen others. … Petitioners And Government of Andhra Pradesh, reptd., by its Secretary, Irrigation & CAD Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and two others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: Smt.P.Rama Devi. Counsel for the respondents: ---- This Court made the following: ORDER:- This Writ Petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “to issue an order, writ or direction more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus under Article 226 of the constitution of India and declaring the action of the respondents in not passing awards and paying compensation having initiated proceedings under Land Acquisition Act having taken possession of Ac.8.88 cents comprised in S.No.413/1B, 413/2A, 414/1B, 414/2B, 414/3A, 414/4B, 416/1, 416/2A, 401/2, 484/2, 484/3 and 484/4 of Gowripatnam Village, Devarapalli Mandal, Ac.2.39 cents in S.No.31/1B, 31/2A-2 and 31/2B-2 of Kondagudem Village, Devarapalli Mandal, 55 Cents in S.No.349/3A of Pochavaram Village, Thallapudi Mandal, West Godavari District in all Ac.12.16 cents of land, as illegal, arbitrary, unjust and Violative of Article 14, 21 and 300A of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents to pass awards and pay compensation for the lands acquired in accordance with law and also to pay abnormal damages for abnormal delay”. At the hearing, Smt. P.Rama Devi, counsel representing Sri P.Sridhar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners, submitted that the cause in the Writ Petition does not survive for consideration and that the Writ Petition may be dismissed as infructuous. In view of the same, the Writ Petition is dismissed as infructuous. As a sequel to dismissal of the Writ Petition, WPMP Nos.27473 of 2005 and 15802 of 2006 are also dismissed as infructuous. ------------------------------------ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J 26-6-2008 MNR