IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION NO : 5687 of 2000 Between: M/s. Sheetal Shipping And Metal Processors Ltd Rep. by its Managing Director, Shamsundar Agarwal Survey No. 263, Parigi Road, Shadnagar, Mahaboobnagar District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Transmission Corporation of A.P. Limited Rep. by its Managing Director, Vidyut Soudha, Hyderabad. 2 The Superintending Engineer Operation Circle, A.P. TRANSCO Mahaboobnagar. 3 The Senior Accounts Officer Operation Circle, A.P. TRANSCO Mahaboobnagar. .....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 a Writ or Order or Direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the Letter No. C.E. (comml)/DE(L)/Voltage Sc./325/00, dt.29.3.2000 of the 1st respondent as highly illegal, arbitrary, unjust and void and consequently set-a-side the same and further declare the action of the respondents in deeming petitioner's contracted maximum demand above 1500 KVA as highly illegal, arbitrary unjust void. Counsel for the Petitioner : MR. D.V.NAGARJUNA BABU Counsel for the Respondents : MR. O.MANOHER REDDY The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE Ms. JUSTICE G. ROHINI WRIT PETITION No.5687 of 2000 O R D E R : This writ petition is filed seeking a declaration that the proceedings of the AP TRANSCO in levying the voltage surcharge amount as per the tariff notification vide BPMS No.62 (Commercial and Operation), dated 28.12.1998 as arbitrary and illegal. When the matter is taken up for consideration, it is brought to my notice by the learned counsel for both the parties that W.P.No.14921 of 1999 and batch in which an identical levy was challenged was dismissed by this Court by common order dated 22.09.2008. Since the petitioner herein is also similarly situated, following the above said order, this Writ Petition shall stand dismissed. No costs. ______________ G. ROHINI, J Dated: 22-01-2009 gbs