IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH and THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 21242 of 1998 Between: 1 Chavata Omkareshwara Rao S/o. Govinda Swamy Nandigama. 2 Chavata Lakshmi Narayana s/o. Govinda Swamy R/o. Nandigama. 3 Vemula Appaiah s/o. Narsaiah R/o. Nandigama. 4 Mamidi Bhagyalakshmi @ Mangamma d/o.Vemula Appaiah Nandigama. 5 Konkimalla Venkata Purnachandra Leela Prasad S/o. K. Venkateswara Rao C/o. Samata Narsing Home, R/o. Nandigama. 6 Banala Ravi Kumar S/o. Gopala Krishna Murthy R/o. Main Bazaar, Nandigama. 7 Banala Gopalakrishna Murthy S/o. Ramaiah R/o. Main Bazaar, Nandigama-521 185 8 Vetcha Prabhakara Rao R/o. Nandigama. 9 Ch. Srinivasa Rao S/o. Govinda Swamy R/o. Nandigama. 10 Smt. Ch. Parvathi W/o. Ch. Gandhi R/o. Nandigama. 11 B. Venkata Satyanarayana S/o. B. Suryanarayana R/o. NANDIGAMA 12 Samudrala Sudhakar S/o. Venkateswara Rao R/o. NANDIGAMA 13 Chandra Koteswara Rao S/o. Kotaiah Dr.No. 8/8, Rythupet, NANDIGAMA 14 Samudrala Madhusudhana Rao S/o. Venkateswara Rao R/o. Nandigama. 15 Majeti Gurunadham S/o. Narsimha Rao R/o. Kakulaiah Street, NANDIGAMA 16 Tadepalli Seetharamachandra Murthy S/o. Gollaiah R/o. Jaggaiahpet. 17 Kantheti Venkateswarlu S/o Kotaiah R/o. Veladikothapalem Village, Chandarlapadu Mandal, Krishna District. 18 B. Narsimha Rao S/o. Venkatappaiah R/o. Mallareddigudem Post, Mellacheruvu Mandal, Nalgonda District. 19 Gurunadham S/o. Narsimha Rao R/o. Nandigama (Village & Mandal, Krishna District. 20 Ayinapuri Anil Kumar S/o. Venkatanarayana R/o. Kakaninagar, Nandigama, Krishna District. 21 Eluru Subba Rao S/o. Satyanarayana R/o. Nandaluru, Gandepalli Post, Veerulapadu Mandal, Krishna District 22 Syed Mustafa S/o. Saleha R/o. Chandapuram, Nandigama Mandalam, Krishna District. 23 Kandi Devadas S/o. Perumal R/o. Nandigama. 24 Nomula Koteswara Rao S/o. Akshoudi R/o. Gouravaram Village, Jaggaiahpet Mandal, Krishna District. ..... PETITIONER(S) AND 1 The Commissioner and Inspector General (R&S) at Hyderabad. 2 The District Registrar and Collector at Vijayawada. 3 The Sub-Registrar, Nandigama NANDIGAMA, Krishna District. 4 The Executive Officer, Sriramalingeshwara Swami Dewasthanam, Nandigama, Krishna District. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue an appropriate Writ, Order or Direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the impugned proceedings issued by the 1st respondent herein under Sec. 47-A of Indian Stamps Act, as illegal, arbitrary, void ab-initio besides violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India and principles of natural justice and further may be pleased to direct the 3rd respondent herein to release the documents executed by the 4th respondent herein in favour of the petitioners by accepting the stamp duty as per the auction sale amount and not to insist for payment of stamp duty as per the market value and pass such other order or orders as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the interest of justice and equity and in the circumstances of the case. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.Y.RAMA RAO Counsel for the Respondent No.: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: (Per Sri Justice V.Eswaraiah) Learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the cause in the writ petition does not survive and therefore the writ petition itself is not pressed. Recording the above submission, the writ petition is accordingly dismissed as not pressed. The interim order granted earlier stands vacated. No order as to costs. _________________ V.ESWARAIAH, J. ___________________ P.SWAROOP REDDY, J. 14.7.2009 kpr