JUDGMENT

1. The present writ petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondent authorities in trying to dig the canal across the petitioner's land in Sy.No.60/10 of Unagatla Revenue Village, Chagallu Mandal, West Godavari District, without issuing any notice or initiating any proceedings either under land acquisition Act or under any other law as illegal and arbitrary.

2. The brief facts of the case is that the petitioner acquired agricultural land in an extent of Ac.4.78 cents inSy.No.60/10 of Unagatla Revenue Village, Chagallu Mandal, West Godavari District, by way of registered settlement deed bearing document Nos.1146/81, dtd. 8/4/1981 and 1731/83, dtd. 15/6/1983, executed by his sister. Since then he was in peaceful possession and enjoyment without any interference from whom so ever concerned. The revenue authorities have mutated the petitioner's name in the revenue records and issued pattadar pass book bearing patta No.130 dtd. 4/7/1996. On 11/12/2010, the respondent authorities came to land in Sy.No.60/10 for digging the canal across the petitioner's property as if the land was already acquired und