THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE V. ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No.7665 OF 2007 DATED: 17-04-2007 BETWEEN Sattenapalli Municipal Vegetable Market Merchant’s Union, Regd.No.322/95, Sattenapalli, Guntur District, Rep. by its President Mungodu Shaik Nagulu Mira, S/o. Peda Moula-ali, R/o. Jenda Chettu Street, 4th Ward, Sattenapalli, Guntur District. …PETITIONER AND The Municipal Council of Sattenapalli, Rep. by its Chairman, O/o Sattenapalli Municipality, Sattenapalli, Guntur District and others. …RESPONDENTS ORDER: Petitioner – union seeks a Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents 1 and 2 in compelling the members of their union to stop their sale of vegetable business at Sattenapalli Municipal Vegetable Market, Sattenapalli, Guntur District by vacating the premises as illegal and arbitrary. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner-union submits that the members of the petitioner-union are vegetable vendors in respect of the aforesaid Municipal Market since several years. He further submits that an open auction notice was given for auction of shops or godowns at Rajiv Gandhi Vegetable Market and as new market has commenced the respondents are pressurizing the petitioners to vacate the existing premises in the Municipal Market without issuing any notice. 3. However, the petitioner-union has not made any representation before the respondents ventilating their grievance that the members of its union have been pressurized to vacate the premises of Sattenapalli Municipal Market. At this stage, the learned Government Pleader submits that the writ petition may be disposed of with a liberty to the petitioner-union to file a representation before the respondents. 4. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the petitioner-union is permitted to file a representation before the respondents with regard to their grievance within one week from today. If any such representation is filed, the respondents shall consider and dispose the same in accordance with law. Till such representation is disposed of the respondents may not take any coercive steps without following due process of law. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ V. ESWARAIAH, J April 17, 2007 Note: Furnish C.C. of the order by 18.04.2007 (B/o) DSK