HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.28467 of 2009 Date : 27-4-2011 Between : Parasa Veera Raghavulu and others .. Petitioners and The State of Andhra Pradesh, Represented by its Principal Secretary, Prohibition & Excise Department, Hyderabad and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioners : Sri Kiran Tirumalasetti Counsel for respondents : A.G.P. for Prohibition & Excise The Court made the following : ORDER: At the Interlocutory stage, the Writ Petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of learned counsel for the parties. This Writ Petition is filed for a mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in demanding annual rental relating to TFT licences in respect of all the 21 licences from the petitioners as illegal and arbitrary. In their affidavit, the petitioners have averred that while they hold individual TFT licences, the respondents have been unauthorisedly demanding annual rental relating to TFT licences in respect of all the 21 TFT licences with which they are not concerned, except to the extent of 5 licences held by them. This court, by order dated 30-12-2009, directed the respondents not to insist on payment of licence fees relating to 16 toddy tappers of Manginapudi village, Machilipatnam Mandal, Krishna District. No counter affidavit is filed. At the hearing, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Prohibition and Excise stated that the Writ Petition is filed on the alleged oral demand made by the respondents and that no demand in writing has been made for payment of the licence fees in respect of 16 other licencees. In the light of the above submission, the Writ Petition is disposed of with the direction to the respondents not to levy and demand the annual rental in respect of 16 other licencees on the petitioners. It is however made clear that the petitioners are liable to pay the annual rental in respect of the TFT licences held by them. As a sequel, WPMP No.37036 of 2009 is disposed of as infructuous. ____________________ C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy.,J Date : 27-4-2011 AM