NO ADVERSE POSSESSION - It is well settled that irrespective of the nature and duration of possession, no person can derive any right vis-à-vis any road margin.

HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY

WRIT PETITION No.2483 of 2013

 ORDER: 

The petitioners claim to be the owners of shops bearing Nos.16/362 to 364 of Gandhi Road, Madanapalle, Chittoor District.  The property is said to have been acquired by their father through sale deed, dated 05-10-1980.  The grievance of the petitioners is that the respondents issued notice, dated 22-01-2013, requiring them to vacate the premises, stating that it is an encroachment on the road margin on National Highway No.219.  The petitioners submit that the notice is untenable in as much as no part of their property is within the road margin. 

2.  The writ petition came for admission on 30-01-2013.  Initially, an interim order was passed and thereafter, a direction was issued to the respondents to furnish a copy of the sketch to the petitioners, depicting the road, together with its margin and nature of encroachment made by them.  In compliance with the same, the respondents have furnished copy of the sketch to the petitioners, indicating the portion of the road margin, encroached by them.

            

3.  Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Government Pleader for Revenue for the respondents 1 and 2, learned counsel for the 3^rd respondent and the learned Government Pleader for Roads & Buildings for the 4^th respondent.

4.  The petitioner is under the impression that the respondents are trying to demolish the shops, constructed within the premises purchased by their father.  However, the sketch prepared by the respondents, discloses that the demolitions are within the road margin.  It is well settled that irrespective of the nature and duration of possession, no person can derive any right vis-à-vis any road margin.

5.  Hence, the Writ Petition is dismissed.  It is, however, directed that in case, the petitioners are able to point out that in addition to the road margin encroached by them, they have got any own property by its side, it shall be open to the respondents to proceed against such portion, only after following due process of law.  There shall be no order as to costs.

6.  The miscellaneous petition filed in this writ petition shall also stand disposed of. 

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L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J   

February 18, 2013.

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