IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM WRIT PETITION NO : 21933 of 2004 Between: Devineni Krishna S/o Hari Prasad Rao R/o Uppumaguluru Post, Ballikurava Mandal Prakasam District ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Superintending Engineer, Panchayat Raj Prakasam District at Ongole 2 The Assistant Engineer, Ballikurava Madnal Prakasam District 3 Mandal Development Officer, Ballikurava Mandal P Prakasam District 4 The Pay & Accounts Officer, Ongole Prakasam District. .....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 issue a Writ or order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the Respondents in deducting the seigniorage fee for ordinary earth from out of the bills payable to the petitioner for executing the contract works covered under proceedings RC. No. 58/2004-B dated 10-08-2004 in respect of execution the work of laying Road from Uppumaguluru to Murikipudi as illegal, arbitrary unjust and without jurisdiction and consequently direct the respondents to pay the bill payable to the petitioner without collecting the seigniorage fee from the petitioner for ordinary earth. Counsel for the Petitioner:SMT.K.SESHARAJYAM Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR PANCHAYAT RAJ & RURAL DEV. The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM WRIT PETITION NO. 21933 OF 2004 ORDER: Sri Y.N. Anjaneyacharyulu, learned counsel representing Smt. K. Sesharajyam, learned counsel for the petitioner states that no further orders are required in this writ petition and the petitioner does not wish to pursue the writ petition. Recording the submission, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. No costs. ____________________ GODA RAGHURAM,J DATE: 20th January, 2009 pnb k