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-1- W.P. No.24373 of 2025 Date of order:11.09.2025
APHC010475642025
IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] THURSDAY,THE ELEVENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N WRIT PETITION NO: 24373/2025 Between: Nallamalli Venkata Kesava Rao and Others ...PETITIONER(S) AND The State Of Ap and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner(S):
1. PETLURI NAGA RAJU Counsel for the Respondent(S):
1. GP FOR MUNCIPAL ADMN URBAN DEV The Court made the following:
-2- W.P. No.24373 of 2025 Date of order:11.09.2025
THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N WRIT PETITION No.24373 OF 2025
ORDER:
1. The present writ petition is filed declaring the action of respondents 2 and 3 in marking the petitioner’s property for acquisition and pressuring the petitioners to accept the TDR certificates in return for handing over the portion of the property for the purpose of road widening and initiating steps to dispossess the petitioners from the property without following procedure contemplated under 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 Ongole 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 08.09.2025 passed by this Court in W.P.No.21175 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.
-3- W.P. No.24373 of 2025 Date of order:11.09.2025
The operative portion of the said order, reads as under:
“….the writ petition is disposed off directing the respondent authorities not to disturb the possession and enjoyment of the petitioner’s property without following due process of law, making it further clear that the respondent authorities shall have to follow the Act 30 of 13 while acquiring the land of the petitioner.”
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 08.09.2025 passed by this Court in W.P.No.21175 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.11.09.2025 BV Note: Registry to annex a copy of the order In W.P. No.21175 of 2025