HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GOPALA KRISHNA TAMADA W.P.No.13267 of 1998 Dated 21st day of February, 2007 Between: Potu Kutumba Rao and ten others .. Petitioners And The District Collector (Panchayatraj) Warangal, Warangal District and three others .. Respondents O R D E R: This writ petition is filed seeking a mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in attempting to demolish the houses and compound walls and acquire the lands belonging to the petitioners in S.No.242 situated in Uyyalawada village, Dornakal Mandal, Warangal District without following due process of law and without paying any compensation to the petitioners, as arbitrary and illegal. The petitioners’ grievance is that the respondents, without following due process of law and without paying any compensation to them, are trying to demolish their houses and compound walls constructed in the lands in question and acquire those lands. Heard the learned counsel for both the parties. This Court, on 5.5.1998, while ordering Rule Nisi directed the respondents not to demolish the petitioners’ houses as well as compound walls without following due process of law. As the very prayer in writ petition is that the proposed acquisition of lands for the purpose of widening the existing road is without any initiation of proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act, this Court deems it appropriate to direct the respondents not to initiate any proceedings without having recourse to law. With the above direction, this writ petition is disposed of. No costs. _______________ 21.02.2007 bcj