IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.544 OF 2010 DATED:10.6.2010 Between: A. Sreenivasa Reddy … Petitioner And The Union of India, rep. by Secretary to Government New Delhi … Respondent THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI NISAR AHMAD KAKRU AND THE HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.544 OF 2010 ORDER: (per the Hon’ble the Chief Justice Shri Nisar Ahmad Kakru) To understand the controversy in its right perspective, it would be appropriate to reproduce the relief sought. “…to issue writ, direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Certiorari calling for the records pertaining to the Amendment of Article 3 of Constitution of India by Constitutional (5th Amendment) Act, 1955 and declare the Constitutional (5th Amendment) Act, 1955 amending Article 3 of the Constitution of India as arbitrary, irrational, against the spirit of the framers of the Constitution of India and against the Basic Structure of the Constitution of India which is Federal in nature.” The contentious issue raised in this writ petition stands already answered by a Constitution Bench of the Apex Court in Waman Rao v. Union of India[1] and the relevant paragraph of the judgment being paragraph 64 in page 294 may be reproduced: “… We hold that all amendments to the Constitution which were made before April 24, 1973 and by which the 9th Schedule to the Constitution was amended from time to time by the inclusion of various Acts and Regulations therein, are valid and constitutional.” In view of the mandate of the judgment supra indulgence is uncalled for. Dismissed. SANJAY KUMAR, J NISAR AHMAD KAKRU, CJ 10-6-2010 B. Narsinga Rao [1] AIR 1981 SC 271