ORAL JUDGMENT

Dt: 23.10.2021 (Prashant Kumar Mishra, CJ)

This writ appeal would call in question the order dated 16.02.2021 passed by the learned single Judge in W.P.No.1985 of 2021, dismissing the writ petition, wherein prayer was made by the writ petitioner for issuance of a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not following the procedure contemplated under the Petroleum and Mineral Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 1962 (for short, “the 1962 Act”) and the Petroleum and Mineral Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Rules, 1963 (for short, “the 1963 Rules”), and in not issuing notification for laying second pipeline through the land belonging to the writ petitioner, situated in S.Nos.132/3C to an extent of Ac.0.30 cetns of Gaddamanugu village, G. Konduru Mandal, Krishna District, as illegal and arbitrary.

2. The appellant is referred to as the writ petitioner. According to the writ petitioner, at an earlier point of time, a pipeline was laid through his land after following the procedure prescribed under the 1962 Act and now the respondents are laying second pipeline without following the said procedure and the same is illegal an