IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 12404 of 2008 Between: 1 Md.Hussain S/o.Late Md.Ghani Shop No.1, Suryabagh Municipal Shopping Complex, Visakhapatnam -20. 2 Ilalapaka Himaleswara Rao S/o.I.Sreeramulu Shop No.3, Suryabagh Municipal Shopping Complex, Visakhapatnam -20. 3 Uddam Singh S/o.Sohan Singh Shop No.4, Suryabagh Municipal Shopping Complex, Visakhapatnam -20. 4 N.Appa Rao S/o.Guruvulu Shop No.5, Suryabagh Municipal Shopping Complex, Visakhapatnam -20. 5 Lallu Ram Sharma S/o.Sharma Shop No.6 & 7, Suryabagh Municipal Shopping Complex, Visakhapatnam -20. 6 G.V.Ramana S/o.late Chinna Ramana Shop No.8, Suryabagh Municipal Shopping Complex, Visakhapatnam -20. 7 Smt.Satinder Kaur W/o.Jagjeet Singh Shop No.2, Suryabagh Municipal Shopping Complex, Visakhapatnam -20. ..... PETITIONER(S) AND The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, Repd. by its Commissioner, Visakhapatnam. .....RESPONDENT 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 writ, order or direction, more particularly, one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the impugned demand notices in R.C.No.1209/05/A5/AC-III dt. 24.05.2008 without passing any orders considering the representation dt. 10.02.2005 in spite of the direction of this Hon'ble Court dt. 7.3.2008 in W.P.No.5952/2005 and insisting for payment of the alleged arrears of rent which are not actually due, and without considering the objections made by them on 15.5.2008 & 7.6.2008 and threatening to dispossess them from the shops as illegal, arbitrary, capricious, and the claim is barred by limitation and consequently to set-a-side the impugned notices referred to above or to pass any other order or orders. Counsel for the Petitioner:SMT.N.(P).ANJANA DEVI, SATYANARAYANA Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.(SC FOR VUDA)N.RANGA REDDY The Court made the following : THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO. 12404 OF 2008 ORDER: 1. This writ petition has been filed by the petitioners who are seven in numbers assailing the demand notice issued by the respondent directing them to pay certain amounts allegedly due towards enhanced rent. 2. In the earlier round of litigation when the respondent-Corporation sought to enhance rents pending their representation, they approached this Court by filing W.P.No. 5952 of 2005. This Court disposed of the writ petition directing the respondent-Corporation to consider the representation dated 10-2-2005 before the enhancement of the existing rent. 3. The grievance of the writ petitioners is that the respondent- Corporation without disposing of the representation as directed in the earlier writ petition served demand notice on them. 4. Learned standing counsel, on instructions, reports that the representation of the petitioners is under active consideration and they are likely to dispose of within a week or so. 5. Such is the situation, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition directing the respondent-Corporation to dispose of the representation dated 7-6-2008, within four weeks from the date of receipt of copy of the order. No order as to costs. _____________________________ Justice B.Seshasayana Reddy 24th June, 2008 KM THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO. 12404 OF 2008 24th June, 2008.