Hon’ble Sri Justice C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy Writ Petition No.16538 of 2007 Dated 28th July, 2011 Between: GAIL (India) Ltd., formerly known as GA Authority of India, reptd by its General Manager, Visakhapatnam. …Petitioner And Vennela Narasimha Murthy and two others. …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri Kakara Venkata Rao Counsel for respondent No.2 : Sri S.I.Varahagiri Counsel for respondent Nos.1 and 3: None appeared The Court made the following: Order: At the interlocutory stage, the writ petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties. This writ petition is filed for a Certiorari to quash order, dated 24.07.2006, in PLOP No.824/2003 on the file of learned I Additional District Judge, Visakhapatnam. At the hearing, Sri Kakara Venkata Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner, fairly submitted that a batch of writ petitions filed questioning awards which are more or less identical to that of the impugned award were disposed of by this Court, whereby such awards were not interfered with except to the extent of interference with award of compensation for two crop losses and also reduction of interest from 7.5% per annum to 6% per annum. Learned counsel further submitted that in this case no compensation was awarded for crop losses. Therefore, the area of interference by this Court with the awards pertaining to the crop losses passed in other cases does not apply in the present case. As regards interest, in my opinion, the Court below having already exercised its discretion by awarding interest at the rate of 7.5% per annum, I do not find any ground to interfere with such discretion. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.21041 of 2007 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is dismissed as infructuous. ______________________ (C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy, J) 28th July, 2011 DR