-1- W.P. No.32252 of 2025 Date of order:21.11.2025 APHC010621772025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N WRIT PETITION NO: 32252/2025 Between: Vema Ramanaiah and Others ...PETITIONERS AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. Sri SASANKA BHUVANAGIRI Counsel for the Respondents: 1. Ld. GP MUNCIPAL ADMN AND URBAN DEV AP 2. Ld. A.S.C. Bose, Ld. Standing Counsel for the Municipal Corporation The Court made the following: -2- W.P. No.32252 of 2025 Date of order:21.11.2025 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N WRIT PETITION No.32252 OF 2025 ORDER: 1. The present writ petition is filed seeking a declaration that the action of the 2nd respondent in marking the petitioners property, an extent of 198 square yards of land along with RCC G+3 structure D.No.37- 1-320, Assessment No.1035002297 in T.S. No.162, Trunk Road, Ongole, Prakasam District, for acquisition and pressuring the petitioner to accept TDR certificates in lieu of handing over the said portion of the property for road widening and further initiating steps to dispossess the petitioners from the property without following the due procedure contemplated under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, as arbitrary and illegal. 2. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioners are the absolute owners of the subject property. It is submitted that the petitioners purchased vacant land of extent of 99 square yards, 49 ½ square yards, 49 ½ square yards respectively vide registered sale deeds bearing document Nos.3645/2002, 3647/2002 and 3646/2002 dt.19.09.2002. The petitioners are in continuous possession and enjoyment of the said property. It is further submitted that the Government approved the Ongole Municipal -3- W.P. No.32252 of 2025 Date of order:21.11.2025 Corporation Master Plan and that, in the evening of 13.11.2025, the authorities of the 2nd respondent came to the petitioners property and insisted them to accept the TDR certificates and informed that demolition would be commenced shortly. 3. Heard the submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned standing counsel for Ongole Municipal Corporation. 4. During the course of the hearing, the 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. 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.” 5. 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. -4- W.P. No.32252 of 2025 Date of order:21.11.2025 6. Registry is directed to annex a copy of the order in W.P. No.21175 of 2025 to the order in the present writ petition. 7. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this writ petition shall stand closed. ___________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N BV