THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.2870 OF 2003 Dated: 30.08.2005 Between: 1 N. Nagisetty Narasimha Rao, S/o. Ranga Rao, M/s. Sai Krupa Scales, Tenali, Guntur District and another. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Controller of Legal Metrology, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad and 3 others. ....RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.2870 OF 2003 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking to declare the action of respondent No.1 in not permitting the petitioners to take up repair works of weights, measures, weighing and measuring instruments, weigh bridges, platform scales and electronic weighing instruments etc. in the entire Guntur Zone, consisting of Guntur, Prakasam and Nellore Districts, as arbitrary and illegal, and consequently to direct the respondents to permit the petitioners with certificate Nos.888/2001, and 412/96 to carryout the repairs of all categories of weights and measures, weighing and measuring instruments, weigh bridges, platform scales, and electronic weighing instruments etc., in the entire territories of Guntur Zone consisting of Guntur, Prakasam and Nellore Districts. When the matter is taken up for hearing today, it is submitted by the learned Government Pleader for Civil Supplies and admitted to by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the subject matter of this writ petition is squarely covered by the judgment of this Court in W.P.Nos.15962 of 2002 and 11147 of 2003, dated 10.03.2004, wherein this Court elaborately considered the similar issue and dismissed the writ petitions. Following the same, this writ petition is also dismissed for the same and similar reasons. No costs. ________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Date: 30.08.2005 Nsr