IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION NO : 21570 of 2004 Between: Food Corporation of India, rep. by its Senior Regional Manager, Regional Office, HACA Bhavan, Nampally, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep.by its Secretary, Food and Agriculture ( Marketting) Department, Hyderabad. 2 The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Secretary, Law and Legislative Affairs, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 3 The Commissioner and Director of Marketting, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENT(S) 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 any appropriate Writ, Order or direction more particularly a Writ of Mandamus and declare that the action of the respondents in notifying rice as an 'Agricultural Produce' for the purpose of levy of market fee under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh ( Agricultural Produce and Live Stock) Market Act, 1966 is arbitrary and illegal or in the alternatively declare that the petitioner is not liable to pay market fee on its purchases of rice from rice millers under Section 28 of the ACT and direct the respondents not to levy, demand and collect the market fee from the petitioner on its purchases of rice from rice millers and issue any other order or orders Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.DANTU.SRINIVAS Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR AGRICULTURE The Court made the following : ORDER: The subject matter of the writ petition is squarely covered by the Division Bench judgment of this Court in W.P.No.18977 of 2002 and batch dated 21.12.2004. Following the aforesaid judgment, this writ petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ V.ESWARAIAH, J. Date:14.03.2008 Ccm To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{AVLR}