THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No.45 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioners assert that they are all residents of Anandnagar, Kallur Road, Korutla in Karimnagar District, and that the respondents are seeking to evict them from the lands, over which their houses are constructed, for the purpose of formation of a railway line. It is needless to observe that if the Union Government seeks to lay a railway line, it has to necessarily acquire the land before the railway line is laid, unless the said land was already acquired in the past by either the State Government or the Union Government. Therefore, the respondents are directed not to dispossess the writ petitioners, without first ascertaining as to whether the land in their occupation and possession has already been acquired or not. If the same has not yet been acquired, the respondents will ensure that the same is acquired, if it is needed for any public purpose including formation of railway line, and then only dispossess the petitioners from the land in their possession. With this, the writ petition stands disposed of. No order as to costs. ________________________ NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO,J 6th January, 2011 v v