THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.20342 of 2009 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in treating the name board fixed on the front side of the business premises of the petitioner at H.No.1-1-40/1/1, S.D.Road, Secunderabad, as an advertisement and issuing notice dated 07.03.2009 to the petitioner demanding to pay advertisement fee, as illegal, arbitrary and against Section 421 of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955. Today, when the matter is taken up for hearing, it is brought to the notice of this Court by the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned Standing Counsel appearing for the respondent Corporation that, in identical circumstances, W.P.No.5825 of 2006 and batch was disposed of by this Court, on 28.09.2006, holding as under: “……to attract the provisions of Section 421 of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955, the Corporation must satisfy itself first that the provisions are attracted and hence the fee can be levied. This exercise has to be made in individual cases…..” It is also brought to the notice of this Court that following the aforesaid order, several similar writ petitions were disposed of with a direction to the Corporation to consider the cases of the petitioners therein individually and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. Since the petitioner herein is also similarly situated, following the above said orders, the impugned demand notice dated 07.03.2009 is set aside and the writ petition is disposed of, at the stage of admission, granting liberty to the petitioner to make a representation to the respondent Corporation, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. If any such representation is made, the Corporation shall consider the same and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. No order as to costs. _________________ N.V. RAMANA, J 23rd SEPTEMBER, 2009. kvni