IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION NO : 14955 of 2001 Between: Guntur City Municipal Rate Prayers Assoc., rep by its General Secretary, Mr.M.L.Kantha Rao, S/o Ramamohan Rao, aged 60yrs, 3rd lane, Gunturvari thota, Guntur. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Municipal Commissioner, Guntur Municipal Corp, Gutnut-3. 2 The Director, Municipal Admn., dept., B.R.K. Building, Hyd. 3 The Govt of A.P., Municipal Admn.,& Urban Develp. Dept., Secretariat, Hyd. 4 The MD., APSRTC., Hyd. .....RESPONDENT(S) 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 a writ direction or order more particulalry one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the Tour conducted by some of the Corp Members, their family members friends & relatives on 5th July 2001 as illegal, without the participation of Mayor, Dy Mayor & all corporate members & also the direct the respondents not to pay any tour expenses to the corp members who participated in the so called study tour, to duduct the advance amount already paid by the R1 from the monthly remuration payable to those corp & also to furhter direct the R1 to collect the water dues from APSRTC Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.K.V.UPENDRA GUPTA Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR MUNCIPAL ADMN. & URBAN DEV. The Court made the following : ORDER: The petitioner-Guntur City Municipal Rate Prayers’ Association seeks to issue a writ of mandamus declaring the tour conducted by some of the Corporate Members, their family members, friends and relatives on 05.07.2001, as illegal without participation of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and all corporate members and also direct the respondents not to pay any tour expenses to the corporate members who participated in the so-called study tour and to deduct the advance amount already paid by the 1st respondent from the monthly remuneration payable to those corporators and also to further direct the 1st respondent to collect the water dues from the A.P.S.R.T.C. A counter has been filed by the first respondent stating that whatever advance has been paid to the Corporators, has been recovered from their monthly honorarium and the tour expenses have been borne by the Corporators. Therefore, the relief sought for in the writ petition was already worked out. In view of the above, the writ petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ V.ESWARAIAH, J. Date:03.04.2008 Ccm To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{VEENA}