Duru Ratnam v. State Of Andhra Pradesh

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A. RAMALINGESWARA RAO WRIT PETITION No.18181 of 2015 ORDER:

Heard the learned counsel for petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue for respondents. 2.

The petitioners claim to be in peaceful possession and enjoyment of the premises having Door No.7-33/1/2 and carrying on business since four decades. They are having electricity service connection and paying taxes to the concerned authority. While so, the fifth respondent proposed to lay inner ring road bridge through the lands of the petitioners and identified 131 houses in Ramavarappadu Village of Vijayawada Town. The petitioners submitted representation on 28.05.2015 followed by another representation on 01.06.2015. However, they received a notice from the third respondent on 22.05.2015 asking them to vacate the premises within 15 days. Challenging the said notice dated 22.05.2015, the petitioners filed the present Writ Petition.

3. In view of the claim of the petitioners that they have been in occupation of the land claimed by the third respondent for several decades, it is necessary to hear them before passing a final order of eviction.

4. In the circumstances, the Writ Petition is disposed of giving liberty to the petitioners to file their objections treating the impugned notice dated 22.05.2015 as a show cause within one week from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and the third respondent is directed to consider the same and pass appropriate orders within 15 days thereafter. Till such time, no coercive steps for eviction of the petitioners shall be taken by the third

respondent.

5. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. No order as to costs. Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, pending in this Writ Petition shall stand closed.

_______________________________ A. RAMALINGESWARA RAO, J Date: 23.06.2015 TJMR