THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE T. VINOD KUMAR W.P.No.8426 of 2006

O R D E R:

This Writ Petition is filed with the following prayer:

“...to direct the respondents to pay market value of the said area of 638 sq. yards forming part of the land in Sy.No.369 situated at Nagarkurnool Mandal proper, now covered by the said Road laid by the Respondents @ Rs.30,000/- (Rupees Thirty thousand) per sq. yard, by issuing an appropriate Writ, order or Direction preferably one in the MANDAMUS and pass such other orders in the interest of justice...”

2. Heard Sri V.Hari Haran, learned Senior Counsel appearing on behalf of Sri A.Narasimha Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Special Government Pleader attached to the Office of the learned Advocate General appearing for respondents and perused the record.

3. Briefly stated the case of the petitioners is that their great grand-father namely late Srinivas Rao, was the owner of land to an extent of Acres 9.22 guntas in survey No.369 of Nagarkurnool Village & Mandal of erstwhile Mahaboobnagar District; that out of the said extent of land, the Government of Hyderabad had acquired the land to an extent of Acres 7.20 guntas in the year

1942; that on acqui