K. RAMACHANDRA RAO, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioners who are thirty three in number have filed this writ petition for the issue of a writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ, direction or order restraining the respondents from taking up the construction of any channel or water course or otherwise disturbing the existing channel from the village tank called pedda Cheruvu situate between Kansanapalli and Seri Mallareddipalli, in Andole taluk, Medak District.

( 2 ) THE petitioners state that they are all pattadars of different lands varying in extents from 4-00 guntas to Ac. 2-12 guntas situate in the village of Kansanapalli, that all the petitioners were cultivating the said lands by taking water from the tank called Pedda cheruvu for over several decades, that water was being carried to their fields from the said channel through the water course or channel, that the said course is the only source of water to the said lands that the revenue authorities and the Executive Engineer, Public works Department, took up the construction of a water course and were laying channels in spite of the objections raised by the petitioners and other villagers of Kandanapalli and Seri Mallareddipalli, th

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