THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM AND THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No. 7220 of 2009 Dated: 3-11-2009 Between: Sri G.Krishna Reddy and another. …Petitioners and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Coprporation, rep. By its Deputy Commissioner, Alwal Circle, Alwal, Secunderabad and others …Respondents Oral order: (Per GR, J) Alleging inaction by respondents 1 and 2 in preventing the 3rd respondent from encroaching into the burial ground in Sy.No.41 of Kowkur Village, Malkajgiri Mandal, under the administrative and operational control of the 1st respondent, this writ petition is filed by way of public interest litigation. The 2nd respondent has filed a counter-affidavit on 10-8-2009 and an additional counter on 16-8-2009. It is pleaded on behalf of the official respondents in the counter-affidavits of the 2nd respondent mentioned above, that action has been taken by the answering respondents by addressing a letter dated 13-8-2009 to the Assistant Director of Survey and Land Records, Ranga Reddy District requesting him to depute the Inspector/Deputy Inspector of Survey for conducting survey and fix up boundaries to the graveyard land immediately. The Deputy Surveyor surveyed the land, concluded the demarcation and to fixed up the boundaries of the burial ground on 14- 8-2009. In the survey of the Deputy Director, it is found that about Ac.0-04 guntas was encroached by the 3rd respondent. The1st respondent got demolished the compound wall constructed by the 3rd respondent by encroachment, on 13-8-2009 and the Municipal authorities are taking steps to safeguard the burial ground in Sy.No.41. A report along with photographs are filed by the 2nd respondent to substantiate the averment as to the construction of a compound wall enclosing what is asserted to be the burial ground in Sy.No.41. In view of these averments on behalf of the official respondents and the steps taken by the Municipal Corporation to protect the burial ground, the grievance in the writ petition does not survive for further adjudication. Recording the submission and noting the report, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. No costs. _____________________________ GODA RAGHURAM, J _______________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J 3rd November, 2009. GRR