HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.9519 of 2009 Date : 15-9-2011 Between : G. Joseph Suda Stephen .. Petitioner And The Executive Engineer (Housing), A.P. State Housing Board, Isukathota (PO), Visakhapatnam and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioner : Sri K. Lakshmaiah for Sri V. Brahmaiah Chowdary Counsel for respondents : Sri D. Ranganatha Kumar The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the inaction of the respondents in considering the petitioner’s application dated 18-10-1993 and subsequent representations as illegal and arbitrary. An extent of 227 sq. yards of vacant land is situated by the side of the property of the petitioner in Sy.No.14/1 of Lakshmivanipalem village, besides A.P. Housing Board Colony at Pothinamallayyapalem, Visakhapatnam District. The petitioner was interested in taking the said vacant land on payment of its market value. The petitioner’s representations made in this regard from the year 1994 did not yield any result. Eventually, the plot was put to public auction on 24-10-2007. As the auction notification has become abortive, the property was put to auction on two subsequent occasions on 18-12-2007 and 18-6-2008. However, the property could not be sold even in the subsequent auctions. It is the pleaded case of the petitioner that when he has approached respondent No.1 showing interest in purchasing the said vacant site, the latter has instructed the petitioner to pay Rs.7200/- per sq. yard. Terming the said offer as unreasonable and arbitrary, the petitioner filed the present Writ Petition. No counter-affidavit is filed by the respondents. At the hearing, Sri Lakshmaiah, learned counsel representing Sri V. Brahmaiah Chowdary, learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted that the petitioner is prepared to purchase the vacant site @ Rs.7200/- per sq. yard, quoted by respondent No.1. Sri D. Ranganatha Kumar, learned Standing Counsel for the A.P. State Housing Board, appearing for the respondents, submitted that he has no instructions as to whether the respondents are agreeable for sale of the property @ Rs.7200/- per sq. yard. The issue raised in this Writ Petition is whether the price fixed at Rs.7200/- per sq. yard in respect of the vacant land in question is reasonable or not. Inasmuch as the petitioner himself has now agreed to pay the said price, no issue for adjudication survives in this Writ Petition. Since the petitioner is willing to pay the said price, he is permitted to make a representation to respondent No.1 in this regard who shall consider the same and take a decision within a period of two months from the date of receipt of such a representation. Subject to the above direction, the Writ Petition is disposed of. As a sequel, WPMP No.12421/2009 is disposed of as infructuous. ________________________ Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy Date : 15-9-2011 AM