IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 7892 of 2006 Between: B.Srinivasa Rao and seven others. ..... PETITIONERS AND A.P. Housing Board, rep.by its V8ice-Chairman and Housing Commissioner, Gruhakalpa Buildings, Hyderabad and another. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners: Sri Raghavendra Reddy for Sri Vedula Venkataramana Counsel for the Respondent No.: MS.G.SUDHA The Court made the following : ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “…to issue a writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ declaring that the action of the 1st respondent contained in proceeding No.49/E8/EE-WD/2006 dated 4.4.2006 rejecting the highest bid of the petitioners in respect of Plot No.424, Phase-VI, KPHB colony, Hyderabad is arbitrary, and illegal and consequentially direct the respondents to accept the balance cost of the plot as per the highest bid of the petitioners dated 17.3.2006 in accordance with the terms and conditions of the auction notification dated 22.2.2006 and convey the title of the said plot in favour of the petitioners”. When the Writ Petition came for hearing on earlier occasions, Sri Vedula Venkata Ramana, learned counsel for the petitioners, submitted to the Court that his clients are prepared to purchase the plot at the rate of Rs.30,000/- per square yard. Ms.G.Sudha, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents-A.P.Housing Board, has taken adjournments, more than once, to get instructions from the respondents. Today, at the hearing, Smt.S.Uma Devi, learned counsel representing Ms.G.Sudha, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents, on instructions submitted that the respondents are agreeable for sale of Plot No.424 in Phase No.VI of K.P.H.B.Colony, Hyderabad, in favour of the petitioners subject to their paying the value of the plot at Rs.30,000/- per square yard. In view of the same, the Writ Petition is disposed of by placing on record the agreement between the parties to the effect that the respondents shall sell Plot No.424 in Phase No.VI of K.P.H.B.Colony, Hyderabad, and register sale deed in favour of the petitioners or one of their nominees authorized by all the petitioners, subject to the petitioners paying the value of the plot at Rs.30,000/- per square yard. The petitioners have agreed to pay the value of the plot within a period of three months from today. Within three weeks from the date of receipt of the amount, the respondents shall execute and register the sale deed. Subject to the above, the Writ Petition is disposed of. ------------------------------------ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:02-7-2009 MNR