IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY TUESDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF JUNE, TWO THOUSAND NINE ONLY WRIT PETITION No.2865 of 2009 Between: Rahul Coach Builders Private Limited having their office at Sy.Nos.90 and 92, Bandlaguda, R.C.Puram, Medak District, reptd., by the Manager Sri Gaddam Nagi Reddy. … Petitioner. And The State of Andhra Pradesh, Department of Home, Secretariat, Saifabad, Hyderabad, Reptd., by Principal Secretary and five others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioner: Sri B.Nalin Kumar. Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Home. This Court made the following: ORDER:- This Writ Petition is filed for a Writ of Mandamus to direct the respondents to release the vehicles bearing registration Nos. AP 9X 9107, AP 9X 9108 and AP 23T 5060 to the petitioner after declaring the action of seizure and detention from 5-2-2009 as illegal and arbitrary. A perusal of the proceedings sheet shows that this Court has taken a serious view of the seizure and detention of the petitioner’s vehicles by passing two different orders on 2-3- 2009. Sri B.Nalin Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted that in pursuance of the latter order passed by this Court on 2-3-2009, the respondents have released all the three vehicles to the petitioner. He, however, submitted that the respondents are claiming that the petitioner shall pay the differential tax under the provisions of the A.P. Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1963. Inasmuch as the subject matter of this Writ Petition is confined to the alleged illegal seizure and detention of the petitioner’s vehicles, which have already been released in pursuance of the above-mentioned order of this Court, the further question of the petitioner’s liability to pay the differential tax does not arise in this Writ Petition. As and when the respondents make any demand against the petitioner for differential tax, it shall be free to question the same by availing appropriate remedy in accordance with law. Subject to the above observations, the Writ Petition is disposed of. ----------------------------- ------- C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:02-6-2009 MNR