ORDER :

1. Heard learned Senior Designate Counsel Sri S.Srinivas Reddy, appearing on behalf of the petitioner, and the learned Government Pleader appearing on behalf of the respondent No. 1 to 5 and Sri P.Ramakrishna, learned counsel appearing on behalf of unofficial respondent Nos.6 to 8.

2. The petitioners approached the Court seeking the prayer as under:

“to issue an appropriate Writ, Order or Direction, more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the land acquisition proceedings, if any, said to have been initiated against part of the land admeasuring Acres 15-84 Cents in Survey Nos. 435 and 436 situated Kaukuntla at Village, Devarakadra Mandal, Mahabubnagar District belonging to the petitioners, as void and lapsed, contrary to law and further declaring the action of the respondents in seeking to dispossess the petitioners from the said land, as highhanded, arbitrary, illegal, unjust, malafide, without jurisidction, violative of the Fundamental and Constitutional Rights guaranteed to us under the Constitution of India as well as in violation of principles of natural justice and consequently direct the Respondents not to interfere with our peaceful possession