The Hon'ble Sri Justice C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy Writ Petition No.2890 of 2006 Date: 18.07.2011 Between: Rajana Raja Rao and 3 others ..... Petitioners AND 1.The District Collector, Visakhapatnam District and another. .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioners: None appeared Counsel for the Respondents: GP for Land Acquisition The Court made the following: Order: This Writ Petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “to issue a writ, order or direction, more particularly, one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the highhanded action of respondents in dispossessing the petitioners in the last week of December, 2005, from the patta land of 4 acres situated in Sy.No.70/3, Regupalem Village, Hamlet of 31- Yerravaram, Yellamanchilli Mandal, Visakhapatnam District, without due process of law either under Land Acquisition Act or any other act as illegal, unjust, arbitrary and violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.” When this Writ Petition came up for hearing on 24-02- 2011, this Court, while noting that Sri E.V.Bhagiradha Rao, learned Counsel for the petitioners, is no more, directed the Registry to issue notice to the petitioners. Accordingly, notices were sent which have returned with an endorsement that the persons by the names mentioned in the address are not residing in the village concerned. A perusal of the cause title shows that the petitioners have given their address as ‘residents of Regupalem, Hamlet of 31- Yerravaram, Yellamanchilli Mandal, Visakhapatnam District’, to which address the notices have been sent. From the postal endorsement, it is obvious that the petitioners have left the village, in which they have earlier resided. As it is the responsibility of the petitioners to engage another lawyer, on the death of the one, to whom the case was originally entrusted, and the efforts of this Court to serve notices on the petitioners having failed, I have no option other than dismissing the Writ Petition for non- prosecution. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is dismissed as such. As a sequel to dismissal of the Writ Petition, WPMP.No.3569 of 2006, filed by the petitioners for interim relief, is disposed of as infructuous. ______________________ (C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy, J) 18th July, 2011 LUR