IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD TUESDAY, THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HONOURALBE SRI JUSTICE G.CHANDRAIAH W.P. No.33756 of 2010 Between: Smt. M.Shakina and others … Petitioners And The A.P. Residential Educational Institutions Society, Represented by its Secretary, Gagan Vihar, Nampally, Hyderabad and another. … Respondents THE HONOURALBE SRI JUSTICE G.CHANDRAIAH W.P. No.33756 of 2010 ORDER: This writ petition has been filed seeking for issuance of Writ of Mandamus declaring that the respondents shall not deduct the entire H.R.A. from the salary of the petitioners and they can deduct only Rs.809/- towards rent for the quarters occupied by the petitioners from their monthly salary. The petitioners are the employees of the respondents’ institution and they were allotted the Type-I quarters, which are within the school premises. It is submitted that the Executive Engineer, R & B Division, Mahaboobnagar is the competent authority to fix the rent payable in respect of the quarters and at the request of the then Principal, A.P. Residential School, Balanagar, the Executive Engineer R & B Division, Mahaboobnagar fixed the rent of the quarters of Type-I as Rs.809/- and communicated the same to the Principal vide letter dated 06.09.2005. The Principal informed the same to the Secretary of the Institutions, 1st respondent, vide letter dated 15.01.2009 with a request to approve the said rent and pass the fixation orders. As the 1st respondent did not pass any orders, so far, and the 2nd respondent is deducting the entire H.R.A. from the salaries of the petitioners, questioning inaction on the part of the respondents, particularly the 1st respondent, the petitioners filed the present writ petition. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the subject matter of the present writ petition is squarely covered by the order passed by this Court in W.P. No.26922 of 2010, wherein this Court directed the respondents not to deduct the entire H.R.A. but shall be entitled to deduct a sum of Rs.1,000/- from the salaries of the petitioners therein till the competent authority passed an order duly following the prescribed procedure. Therefore, he submits that similar direction may be passed in the present writ petition. On the other hand, the learned counsel appearing for the respondents does not dispute the submission made by the learned counsel for the petitioners. From a perusal of the facts and circumstances of the present case and the order passed in W.P. No.26922 of 2010 are similar, following the order passed in the said writ petition, this writ petition can also be disposed of with the following direction. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case and in view of the fact that both the counsel agreed that the relief sought for in the writ petition is squarely covered by the order passed by this Court in W.P. No.26922 of 2010, the respondents are directed not to deduct the entire H.R.A. but shall deduct to a sum of Rs.1,000/- each from the salaries of the petitioners, till the competent authority passes an order duly following the prescribed procedure. Accordingly, with the above direction, this writ petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ___________________________ JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH Date: 29.03.2011 Note: Furnish C.C. in three days. B/o. LSK