IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.3072 of 2003 Between: N.Shanthamma, W/o.Chinna Naganna, R/o.Santhakodulur Village, Adoni Mandal, Kurnool District. ...PETITIONER AND 1 The District Collector, Kurnool, Kurnool District. 2 The Revenue Divisional Officer, Adoni, Kurnool District. ...RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ or order holding that the Notification Under Sec. 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act published by the 1st respondent in Vartha daily dt. 23- 1-2003 in seeking to acquire the land in S.Nos. 353 /B2, 353/c2 and 353/D2 of Santhekodulur village, Adoni Mandal, Kurnool District as illegal, arbitrary and unreasonable. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.K.SOMA KONDA REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR LAND ACQUISITION The Court made the following: THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.3072 of 2003 ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed seeking a Mandamus declaring the notification under Section 4 (1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 {“the Act” for brevity}, issued by the first respondent and published in ‘Vaartha’ daily news paper dated 23.01.2003, seeking to acquire land in Survey Nos.353/B2, 353/C2 and 353/D2 of Santhakoduluru Village, Adoni Mandal, Kurnool District, as arbitrary and illegal. According to the petitioner, a notification under Section 4 (1) of the Act was published in ‘Vaartha’ daily newspaper dated 23.01.2003 seeking to acquire an extent of Acs.6.00 of land in the above Survey Nos. Further, the enquiry under Section 5-A of the Act was dispensed with by invoking powers under Section 17 (4) of the Act. The same was challenged on various grounds. There is no necessity of going into all the details. The learned Government Pleader for Land Acquisition, on instructions, states that though a notification was issued under Section 4 (1) of the Act in regard to the above mentioned land, which was published in ‘Vaartha’ daily news paper on 23.01.2003, the District Collector has decided not to acquire the said land and no further steps have been taken in this regard. Recording the same, the Writ Petition is closed. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________ (C.V.RAMULU, J) 15th June 2009 RRB