IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 14227 of 2000 Between: 1 Karimnagar Auto Welfare Association Rep. by President Ch.Ramachandram, S/o. Venkati R/o. Karimnagar 2 Hasan Bin Farej S/o. Farej Bin Abdullah R/o. Ashok Nagar Karimnagar ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The District Collector Karimnagar 2 The Superintendent of Police Karimnagar 3 The Revenue Divisional Officer Karimnagar 4 The Circle Inspector of Police Karimnagar .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.S.LAKSHMA REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: AGP FOR HOME The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus to set aside proceedings, dated 06.07.2000 issued by the District Traffic Advisory Committee (for short ‘the Committee’) under the Chairmanship of respondent No.1 and to direct the respondents not to implement the decisions taken in the said proceedings. Heard Sri S.Lakshma Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home and perused the record. Under the impugned proceedings, respondent No.1 acting as Chairman of the purported Committee, took certain decisions, which include collection of fee for the paid parking of various motor vehicles and earmarking places for parking. The impugned proceedings are questioned in this writ petition on the ground that respondent No.1 has no jurisdiction to issue the same. At the hearing, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home sought to justify the impugned proceedings by relying on some of the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short ‘the 1988 Act’) and the Rules made thereunder and the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965 (for short ‘the 1965 Act’). Having regard to the fact that after filing of the writ petition, the Karimnagar Municipality is made into a Municipal Corporation and the further fact that the impugned proceedings were stayed by this Court except to the extent of regulation of traffic and requirement with regard to parking places, I feel, it is not necessary to go into the merits of the contentions raised by the learned counsel for the respective parties and adjudicate the same, because the provisions of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 (for short ‘the 1955 Act’) apply to the Karimnagar Municipal Corporation and the 1965 Act, under which, the Committee exercised its purported power and issued the impugned circular, no longer applies. Since the respondents are required to take a decision on regulation of traffic including collection of parking fees under the provisions of the 1955 Act, the impugned Circular to the extent of levying parking fees cannot be enforced. The writ petition is accordingly, disposed of with liberty to the authorities concerned under the 1988 Act and the 1955 Act to take appropriate decisions on the allotment of parking area and collection of parking fees without reference to the impugned proceedings issued by respondent No.1, in accordance with the provisions of the said two Acts and the Rules made thereunder. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, interim order, dated 07.08.2000 is vacated and WPMP.No.18086 of 2000 is dismissed. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 28th JULY, 2008. kvni