(Per G.S. Singhvi, C.J.)

This appeal is directed against order dated 9-11-2006 passed by the learned Single Judge, whereby she allowed the writ petition filed by the respondents and quashed order dated 31-3-2006 passed by Estate Officer and Additional Divisional Railway Manager, South Central Railway, Vijayawada (hereinafter referred to as the Estate Officer) under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971 (for short, the 1971 Act).

2. A perusal of the record shows that by claiming themselves to be the owners of land comprised in Town Survey No.1961/1, Ward No.2, Block No.42 of Kakinada Town, the respondents filed Writ Petition No.1309 of 2006 against their threatened dispossession. The same was disposed of by this Court on 27 -1-2006 with the direction that the non petitioners (the appellants herein) shall not interfere or dispossess the petitioners (the respondents herein) from the land comprised in Town Survey No.1961/1 of Kakinada Town and Municipal Corporation without following the due process of law. Thereafter, the Estate Officer issued notices dated 16-2-2009 to the respondents under Section 4(1) of the 1971 Act requiring them to vacate the l