THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.5749 of 2000 DATE: 21st July, 2011 Between: Kuncha Kabeer Dass … Petitioner / Plaintiff And Venkatagiri Gram Panchayat … Respondent / Defendant THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.5749 of 2000 ORDER: This revision questions the decree of small cause nature passed by the Junior Civil Judge, Venkatagiri in S.C.No.146 of 1994 whereby the respondent-Gram Panchayat was held entitled to recover house tax arrears of Rs.1612.35 p., with interest at 12% per annum from the date of suit till realization. The petitioner, as President of Tax Payers Association, had filed W.P.No.16303 of 1991 questioning the revised assessment as illegal and contrary to the A.P. Gram Panchayat Act. The said writ petition has since been dismissed by a Division Bench of this Court by order dated 20.08.2007, and the grounds based on which orders were passed by this Court in the said writ petition are no more available to the petitioner. This revision petition was preferred when the said writ petition was pending. The controversy raised in this revision petition is only as to whether Gram Panchayat can collect taxes at the revised rate. That controversy now does not subsist as the writ petition was dismissed. The order of the learned Junior Civil Judge, upholding the entitlement of the 1st respondent-Gram Panchayat to recover tax arrears, cannot therefore be invalid on any ground. The revision petition is accordingly liable to be dismissed. Hence, the petition is dismissed, however, there shall be no order as to costs. ____________________________ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J 21st July, 2011 KSM