1 APHC010619812011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GANNAMANENI RAMAKRISHNA PRASAD WRIT PETITION NO: 9366 OF 2011 Between: 1. AKULA LAKSHMI SASI PRABHA, SRIKAKUAM DIST, & ANOTHER, W/o. Rama Rao Satish House Wife R/o. D.No. 5-6/3-14/4, Kanukurthi Street, Srikakulam Town 2. Kachirisetty Venkata Kalyan Chakravarthy, S/o. late Harishkumar R/o. 7-52 Madhapuri, Road No.3, Dilsukhnagr, Ranga Reddy District ...Petitioners AND 1. CORR SRIKAKUAM MUNICIPALITY 3 OTHERS, Rep by its Commissioner, Srikakulam 2. Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority, Rep by its Vice Chairman, Visakhapatnam 3. Regional Deputy Director Town Planning, Visakhapatnam 4. Gondu Tirupathi Rao, S/o. Simhachalam HUDCO Colony, 3rd Ward, H.No. 185, Srikakulam Town and District ...Respondents Counsel for the Petitioners: B.V. APARNA LAKSHMI Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR MUNCIPAL ADMN URBAN DEV Counsel for the Respondents:S S.NAGESWARAREDDY Counsel for the Respondents:S.NAGESWARAREDDY 2 The Court made the following ORAL ORDER: Heard Sri Mahesh Naik, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of Ms. B.V. Aparna Lakshmi, learned Counsel for the Writ Petitioners and Sri S. Vijaya Kumar, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of Sri A.S.C. Bose, learned Standing Counsel for Municipal Corporations. 2. Sri Mahesh Naik, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of Ms. B.V. Aparna Lakshmi, learned Counsel for the Writ Petitioners submits that the learned Counsel appearing for the Writ Petitioners has since been elevated as Judge, they have addressed a letter to the Writ Petitioners but no reply has been received. 3. The record of the Court discloses that on 19.06.2024, this Court has already sent notices to both the Writ Petitioners and the same were returned with endorsements. The postal cover insofar as Writ Petitioner No.1 is concerned, it was returned with an endorsement as ‘addressee deceased, hence returned to sender’ on 12.08.2024. The postal cover insofar as Writ Petitioner No.2 is concerned, it was returned with endorsement as ‘left without instructions’ on 09.08.2024. Since this Writ Petition is of the year 2011 and since the Writ Petitioner No.1 is no more and Writ Petitioner No.2 had left without instructions, this Court is not inclined to keep this Writ Petition pending on the file of this Court. Accordingly, this Writ Petition is dismissed for non- prosecution. However, liberty is granted to the Writ Petitioners (including the legal representatives of Writ Petitioner No.1) to file an Application for restoration within eight weeks from today, if the cause survives. If no Application is filed for restoration within that time, the Registry is at liberty to destroy the record as per the Rules. No Order as to Costs. 4. Interlocutory Applications, if any, stand closed in terms of this order. ______________________________________ GANNAMANENI RAMAKRISHNA PRASAD, J Dt: 23.02.2026 JKS 3 87 HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GANNAMANENI RAMAKRISHNA PRASAD WRIT PETITION No. 9366 OF 2011 23.02.2026 JKS