IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO: 15212 of 2000 Between: 1 Chandana Industries, Rep by its K.R.Laxminarayana, R/o. 6-8-275, Ravindra Nagar, Nalgonda. 2 Style Lamp Industries, Rep by its T.K.Kishore, Komarada Road, Rayalam Bhimavaram, West Godavari District. 3 Aeropack Industries, Rep by T.Narayana Murthy, R/o. Rayalam, Bhimavaram, West Godavari District. ... PETITIONERS AND The Machilipatnam Municipality, Rep by its Commissioner, Machilipatnam, Krishna District. ...RESPONDENT 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 a Writ in the nature of Writ of Mandamus: (i) declaring the action of the respondent in not purchasing the street- lighting materials, mentioned in the Tender Notification No. 1544/2000-E1- No. 14/2000-01, dt. 3.8.2000 published in Eenadu of 7.8.2000 from the petitioners/small scale Industries on the basis of rate contract or by way of limited tenders system as arbitrary, illegal and contrary to the Government Orders and the statutory rules framed under the A.P. Municipalities Tender Rules, 1967; (ii) direct the respondent authorities to accepts and evaluate the quotations from the petitioners in pursuance of Tender Notification dated 3.8.2000 of the respondent. Counsel for the Petitioners: MR. A. SUDERSHAN REDDY Counsel for the Respondent: MR.S. NAGESHWAR REDDY The Court made the following: ORDER: It is represented by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the subject matter in this writ petition has become infructuous. Recording the same, the writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. No costs. _______________ N.V. RAMANA, J June 17, 2005 MRR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER Copy to 1. The Commissioner, The Machilipatnam Municipality, Machilipatnam, Krishna District. 2. Two CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{GSNM}