THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ELIPE DHARMA RAO WRIT PETITION NOS.15877 AND 15914 OF 2005 DATED:08-08-2005 W.P.No.15877 of 2005 Between 1.V.Rama Rao son of late V.Subrahmanyam age 60 yrs, Occ: Retd. Employee, r/o Plot No.224, Flat G-1, Sai towers, Defence colony, Secunderabad and another. …Petitioners And 1.The Government of Andhra Pradesh rep. By its Secretary, Municipal Admini- stration, Secretariat Buildings, Saifabad, Hyderabad and 3 others. ….Respondents W.P.NO.15914 OF 2005 Between 1.S.Gopala Krishna son of S.Rama Murthy aged about 46 yrs, Plot No.37, D/o37-18/100, Defence colony,Sainikpuri, Secunderabad and 2 others. ….Petitioners And 1.The Government of Andhra Pradesh rep. By its Secretary, Municipal Admini- stration, Secretariat Buildings, Saifabad, Hyderabad and 3 others. ……Respondents COMMON ORDER The above two writ petitions are filed seeking writ of mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in treating the petitioners plot Numbers in Defence colony layout, Malkajgiri, Hyderabad as part of open space is illegal, arbitrary and consequently direct the respondents to consider the application of the petitioners for construction of residential buildings. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the issue involved in these writ petitions is squarely covered by a judgment of the learned Single Judge in a batch of writ petitions in W.P. No.2518 of 2001 and batch, dated 20- 06-2005. Following the same, these writ petitions are also disposed of. No costs. -------------------- 08-08-2005 Hsd