THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM AND THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN Writ Petition Nos. 13105 of 2006, 14367, 15367, 24884, 5709, 11530, 13279, 15050 and 27071 of 2007, 8663, 14687 and 18631, 18650 of 2008+ Dated: 16-11-2009 Between: M/s Sai Raghavendra Hotels Private Limited, rep. by its Director, Sri M.Srinivasulu. …Petitioner and The State of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Secretary to Government, LegislativeAffairs & Justice (i/c) Law Department, Secretariat Building, Hyderabad and others. …Respondents. Common Order: (Per GR, J) The validity of the Andhra Pradesh Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2001 is assailed in this batch of writ petitions. Reliance is placed in support of the challenge on the decision of the learned Division Bench of this Court in Sree Rayalaseema Alkalies and Allied Chemicals Ltd. V. State of Andhra Pradesh and others[1]. In view of the synoptic submission of the learned counsel for the respective parties that the decision in Sree Rayalaseema Alakalies and Allied Chemicals’s case (1 supra) covers the issues arising in this batch of writ petitions, the writ petitions are allowed as prayed for. No costs. ___________________________ GODA RAGHURAM, J _______________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J 16th November, 2009. GRR [1] (2008) 46 APSTJ 1