HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.28750 of 2008 Date: 05.09.2011 Between: The Cloth Merchants Association, Vijayawada, reptd by its General Secretary- Gujjalam Vijayakumar. ..... Petitioner AND The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation, Reptd by its Commissioner, Vijayawada. .....Respondent Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri V.R.Avula Counsel for the Respondent: Smt G.Jhansi, Learned Standing Counsel for Vijayawada Municipal Corporation The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “…to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondent in enhancing the rent by 33 1/3 % from 30.09.2008 for a period of three years for the shops located at Vasthralatha Shopping Complex, Vijayawada, for which the members of the petitioner association are lessees as illegal and arbitrary and consequently, direct the respondent to collect the rent at the existing rate as on September, 2008 for the period 2008-2011.” At the hearing, Sri V.R.Avula, learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted that the issue relating to enhancement of rent for the shops by the respondent is under active consideration of the Government on the report submitted by the Commissioner of the respondent- Corporation and that the petitioner may be left free to pursue with the Government for the time being. In view of the said submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner, the Writ Petition is disposed of without going into the merits of the case with liberty to the petitioner to pursue with the Government with regard to the issue relating to enhancement of rent for the shops. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, W.P.M.P.No.37625 of 2008 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ______________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 05th September 2011 DR