IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE THIRTIETH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 29261 of 1997 Between: R.Nagashankar Reddy s/o R.Ramakrishna Reddy, Hindu, aged 31 years, Occ:Contractor, R/o Karasanapalle, Punganur Tq.Chittoor District. .... PETITIONER AND 1. The superintending Engineer, Pancayat Raj,Chittoor. 2. The Superintending Engineer, Roads and Buildings. Cuddapah. 3. The Superintending Engineer, Roads and Buildings (Irrigation),Chittoor. 4. TheChief Engineer, A.P.Health & Medical Housing & Infrastructure Development Corporation, Somajiguda, Hyderabad 5. The Superintending Engineer, Public Health, Nellore. 6. The Superintending Engineer, Rural Water Supply, Chittoor. 7. The Executive Engineer, Telephones, Construction Division, Telephone Bhavan, Tirupathi, Chittoor District. (dismissed for default as per Court orders dt 4.9.2000 as against respondent No.7.) ...RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate Writ or direction declaring the action of the respondents in not issuing the Tender Schedules for execution of works to the petitioner as arbitrary, illegal and unreasonable and for a consequential direction directing the respondents to issue tender schedules to the petitioner without insisting upon for the production of Sales Tax Clearance Certificate in similar nature of works. Counsel for the Petitioners: MR M.V.PRATAP REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: G.P for Roads and Buildings The Court made the following: ORDER: By this Writ Petition the petitioners, in effect, seek a direction to the respondents not to insist them for production of Sales Tax Clearance Certificate from the Commercial Tax Department and also experience certificate in similar nature of works in all tender notices issued after 03.11.1997. None appears for the petitioners as well as the respondents. While admitting this Writ Petition on 06.11.1997, this Court passed interim order in W.P.M.P.No.34142 of 1997 directing the respondents not to insist the petitioners for production of Sales Tax clearance Certificate from the Commercial tax Department and also experience certificate in similar nature of works in all tender notices issued after 03.11.1997. The main relief and the interim relief sought for by the petitioners are one and the same. It is not known whether by virtue of the interim order, the case of the petitioners has been considered. Be that as it may, by virtue of interim order, which is akin to the main relief, no orders are required to be passed in this Writ Petition. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is dismissed as having become infructious. No costs. ____________ 30-03-2005 kvrm To 1. The superintending Engineer, Pancayat Raj,Chittoor. 2. The Superintending Engineer, Roads and Buildings. Cuddapah. 3. The Superintending Engineer, Roads and Buildings (Irrigation),Chittoor. 4. TheChief Engineer, A.P.Health & Medical Housing & Infrastructure Development Corporation, Somajiguda, Hyderabad 5. The Superintending Engineer, Public Health, Nellore. 6. The Superintending Engineer, Rural Water Supply, Chittoor. 7. The Executive Engineer, Telephones, Construction Division, Telephone Bhavan, Tirupathi, Chittoor District. 8. 2 CCs to G.P. for Roads and Buildings, High Court Buildings, Hyderabad (OUT)