IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO : 21226 of 2000 Between: M/s. ELIGI EQUIPMENTS, COIMBATORE, Head Office and Factory at Coimbatore, and Branches at various places in India, including at Hyderabad (Previously Branch office at No.1-9-698/4, 1st Floor, Vidhyanagar, Hyderabbad and now at premises No.1-8-611, Opp: Airport, Begumpet, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Union of India Rep. by its Secretary to Government, Ministry of Food and Cosumers Affairs, New Delhi. 2 The President, District Forum, (Under Consumer Disputes Act), District Court Complex, Nalgonda. 3 Vibro Equipments, Dr. Ramaswamy Salai, P.O.Box. No.69221, 881/7, K.K.Nagar, Chennai (West) 600 078. 4 M/s. Siddhartha Borewells, Rep. by its Proprietor, Sri. P.Butchi Reddy, R/o. Varketpally village of Valigonda, Mandal, Nalgonda District. 5 The Station House Officer, Police Station, Begumpet, Hyderabad - 500 016. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue an order or direction, more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring Section 27 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 as arbitrary, unreasonable and violative of Articles 14 and 19 (1) (g) of the Constitution of India, and consequently declare all the Proceedings in P.P.No.6 of 2000 in C.D.No. 33 of 1997 on the file of District Forum, Nalgonda as void ab initio, null and void ad honest in the eye of Law, and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.N.RAGHAVAN Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.A.RAJASEKHAR REDDY THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH and THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.21226 of 2000 JUDGMENT:(per Hon’ble Sri Justice V.Eswaraiah) Learned counsel for the petitioner fairly submitted that the subject matter of this writ petition is squarely covered by an order of this Court in Dr.C.V.Ratnam v. Union of India[1]. This writ petition is also dismissed in terms of and in accordance with the aforesaid order of the Full bench. There shall be no order as to costs. V.ESWARAIAH,J SANJAY KUMAR,J Dt:23.04.2009 usd [1] 2001(5) ALT 610(FB)