IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION NO : 18485 of 2004 Between: 1 M/s Eswara Transfromer Works 8/2/2, Badvel Road, Mydukur, Kadapa rep.by its Partner Mr.N.Ramalingeswar reddy S/o N.Pakira Reddy aged 40 years 2 M/S Sri Vigneswara Electricals Prakesh Nagar Colony, Maddur Road Proddatur, Kadapa District rep.by its K.Sudarshan Reddy s/o K.Konda Reddy 3 M/s Siva Sanker Industries Vempalli, Kadapa District rep.by its S.Subba Reddy S/o S.Singa Reddy Raja 4 M/s Prompt Electrical works Beside Vasu Auto works, Madras Road Kadapa rep.by its P.Muni Kumar S/o P.B.Muniah 5 M/S Vijay Industires 3/168, M.S.Road, Rajampeta Kadapa District rep.by its V.Sreenivasa Reddy S/o V.Pakira Reddy Aged 38 Years 6 M/s Shirdi Sai Electricals F-10, Industrial Estate, Kadapa, rep.by M.Viswesara Reddy S/o M.Narayana Reddy aged 42 years 7 M/s Gayatri Electricals Beside 33/11 KV Substation, Rajampeta Kadapa district rep.by C.Bhaskar Reddy S/o C.Ramachandra Reddy aged 37 Years. 8 M/s Lakshmi Electricals 1/455, Beside Maruti Talkies, Puliveridla Kadapa District. 9 M/s Transpower Engineering works E-6, Industrial Estate, Proddatur Kadapa District. .....PETITIONERS AND 1 Andra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Ltd., rep.by its Chief Managing Director Tirupati. 2 The Chief Engineer (Operation ) AP.Southern Power Distribution Company Limited Tirupati 3 The Superintending Engineer Viduty Bhavan, Railway Station Road, Kadapa. 4. M/s. Sree Lakshmi Venkateswara Electricity rep. By its partner, Y.Nagaraju, s/oLakshmaiah, 5-81, Vijayanagaram Veedhi, Proddatur, Kadapa District. (R4 is impleaded as per court order dated 15-12-2004 in WPMP No. 25747 of 2004.) .....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 an appropriate writ or order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring as illegal and arbitrary the action of the Respondents in seeking to entrust carrying out repairs to distribution transformers to new units without issuing tender notification and without assessing the need to register new units and issue a consequential direction not to allot work to new units without providing the break even capacity to the units can by the petitioner Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.D.V.SITARAMAMURTHY Counsel for the Respondents 1 to 3: Mr. P.Sriramulu Reddy, Counsel for respondent No.4: Mr. G.Rama Sarma The Court made the following : O R D E R: Sri G.Rama Sarma, learned counsel appearing for the 4th respondent in the writ petition submitted that the writ petition itself has become infructuous in view of the cancellation of earlier tenders and calling for the fresh tenders for carrying out repairs to distribution transformers both conventional and CSP of various capacities. Recording the above submission, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. No costs. ___________ 09-03-2005 Mjl/* To, 1 The Chief Managing Director, Andra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Ltd., Tirupati. 2 The Chief Engineer (Operation ) AP.Southern Power Distribution Company Limited Tirupati 3 The Superintending Engineer Viduty Bhavan, Railway Station Road, Kadapa. 4. 2 CD copies.