Extracted from the PDF above. The PDF is authoritative.
-1- W.P. No.21945 OF 2025 Date of order: 21.08.2025
APHC010424112025
IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] THURSDAY,THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N WRIT PETITION NO: 21945/2025 Between: Andhra Khadi Bhandar ...PETITIONER AND The State Of Ap and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner:
1. K SAIRAM MURTHY Counsel for the Respondent(S):
1. GP FOR MUNCIPAL ADMN URBAN DEV The Court made the following:
-2- W.P. No.21945 OF 2025 Date of order: 21.08.2025
THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N WRIT PETITION No.21945 OF 2025 ORDER:
1. The present writ petition is filed declaring the action of the respondents in not following procedure contemplated under Section 28 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 as arbitrary and illegal.
2. Heard the submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioner and learned standing counsel for Guntur Municipal Corporation.
3. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the issue involved in this writ petition is squarely covered by the order dated 22.01.2025 passed by this Court in W.P.No.1400 of 2025 and requested to pass a similar order in this writ petition also. The same is not disputed by the learned counsel appearing for the Respondents. The operative portion of the said order, reads as under:
“….In view of the same, instead of keeping the writ petition pending, the writ petition is disposed of directing the 2nd respondent not to interfere with the possession of the petitioner without following the procedure as contemplated under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.”
4. In view of the same, for the reasons alike in the aforesaid order, this writ petition is also disposed of, in terms of the order, dated 22.01.2025
-3- W.P. No.21945 OF 2025 Date of order: 21.08.2025
passed by this Court in W.P.No.1400 of 2025. There shall be no order as to costs.
5. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this writ petition shall stand closed. ___________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N Dt.21.08.2025 BV