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HARINATH N.
Thota Venkatadri – Appellant
Versus
State of Andhra Pradesh – Respondent
ORDER (COMMON)
All the petitioners are residents of the Gunadala area, Vijayawada and have filed a batch of writ petitions seeking to declare the proceedings dated 04.07.2023 issued by the respondent authority rejecting the request of the writ petitioners for the grant of compensation under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
2. The petitioners are also seeking a direction to the respondent authorities to initiate acquisition proceedings under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The petitioners are also seeking payment of compensation in terms of Act, 30 of 2013. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are permanent residents of the Gunadala area in Sy.No.284/4 and that they acquired the property through their ancestors. It is submitted that some of the petitioners’ forefathers have been living there for about 100 years or more.
3. It is also submitted that the Gunadala area was originally a Grampanchayat, which was merged into the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation in the year 1981. Thereafter, t
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