JUDGMENT :

M. Satyanarayana Murthy, J.

1. Petitioner No.1 is an Association known as Bhusekharana Land Pooling Raithu Kooli Nirvasithula Sankshema Sangam with registered number 112 of 2020. Petitioner No.2 – G. Sriram is the president of petitioner No.1 association, whereas, petitioner No.3 is an individual. They filed this writ petition by way of public interest litigation, challenging the action of the respondents – authority in issuing G.O.Ms.No.72 Municipal Administration and Urban Development (M) Department dated 25.01.2020 and proceeded to take away the assigned land for urbanisation i.e. house sites in such a manner depriving the benefits to be given to artisans and other landless poor in the 54 villages of Visakhapatnam District, in gross violation of Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban Development Authorities Act, 2016 (for short “APMRUDA Act”), provisions of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (for short “Act No.30 of 2013”), land allotment policy issued Vide G.O.Ms.No.571 and declare the impugned G.O.Ms.No.72 dated 25.01.2020 as discriminatory, arbitrary, destroying the rural economy of the