IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH, AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No. 19456 OF 1997 Date:07.07.2006 BETWEEN: 1. C. Chandrasekhar and others. …. PETITIONERS And 1. The Superintending Engineer, S.C. Corporation, Hyderabad, and others. …. RESPONDENTS ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed seeking a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in insisting for deposit of Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) in the shape of National Savings Certificate or Postal Term Deposit Scheme Certificate and also insisting for submission of Tax Clearance Certificate from the Commercial Tax Department along with Tenders, as illegal and arbitrary. This Court while admitting the writ petition granted interim direction on 18.08.1997 as under. Interim direction to issue tender schedules to the petitioners without insisting on Earnest Money Deposit in the shape of National Savings Certificate, Postal Term Deposit Schedule Certificate and without insisting on Commercial Tax Clearance Certificate, pending further orders. Due to afflux of time nothing survives in this writ petition. Therefore, the Writ Petition is dismissed as infructuous. No costs. ________________ (C.V. Ramulu, J.) 7th July, 2006 Js.