THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY W.P.No.16814/2003 Date of Order: 31-3-2011 Between: 1. M. Veera Venkata Vinja Rao and another …Petitioners and 1. The District Collector, Kakinada, East Godavari District and others. ..Respondents The Court made the following Order: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY W.P.No.16814/2003 Oral Order: The petitioners claiming to be the owners of the land to an extent of 91 ¾ cents in S.No.446/2 situated at Hukumpet village, Rajahmundry Rural Mandal, having purchased under a registered sale deed dt. 5-9-1981 from one Basa Siva Shankar Rao Reddy filed the writ petition complaining that respondents 3 and 4 at the instructions of respondents 1 and 2 highhandedly tried to lay a road through their lands without acquiring the land under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and they cannot be deprived of their property, which is in violation of Art.300-A of the Constitution of India and therefore they should be restrained from laying the road through their lands without following due process of law. This court by order dt.12-8-2003 directed both the parties to maintain status quo existing as on 12-8-2003. In spite of issuing status quo order, the respondents have not chosen to file any counter opposing the writ petition or denying the averments mentioned in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition, and therefore allegations made in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition go uncontroverted. In view of the same, the writ petition is disposed of in terms of the interim order dt.12-8-2003 directing the respondents not to dispossess the petitioners or lay the road through the land of the petitioners except in accordance with the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act or any other law in force. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. ________________ A.GOPAL REDDY, J. Dt.31-3-2011 kmr