THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.15836 of 2009 Date : 15-4-2011 Between : M/s.MAYTAS-MEIL-ABB-AAG-(JV) Represented by its Authorised Signatory .. Petitioner G.Subba Rao, Begumpet, Hyderabad And The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Represented by its Principal Secretary, Irrigation, Command Area Development Department and others .. Respondents Counsel for petitioner : Sri K.V. Subba Reddy Counsel for respondent Nos.1, 4, and 5 : Assistant Government Pleader for Irrigation Counsel for respondent No.2 and 6 : G.P. for Finance & Planning Counsel for respondent No.3 : G.P. for Transport The Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for the following substantive relief : “….to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in withholding and deducting 0.25% of the gross bill amounts payable to the petitioner by referring to G.O.Ms.No.98, I&CAD Department, dated 5-7- 2000, G.O.Ms.No.61, TR&B Department, dated 11-4-2000 and G.O.Ms.No.159, TR&B Department, dated 30-10-2004 pertaining to Agreement No.2/EPC/2008-2009, dated 17-11-2008 as illegal, arbitrary and unconstitutional and consequently direct the respondents to refund all the amounts illegally deducted from the bill amounts of the petitioner and forbear the respondents from making any deductions in future from out of the amount payable to the petitioner for the works carried on by the petitioner ….” At the hearing, Sri K.V. Subba Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the issue raised in this Writ Petition is held in favour of the petitioners who filed similar Writ Petitions in W.P.No.23750/2000 and batch and the order dated 19-7-2005 passed in the said batch of cases was confirmed in W.A.No.21175/2005 and batch by a Division Bench in its Judgment dated 21-7-2010. In support of this submission, the learned counsel filed a copy of the said Judgment which confirmed the Judgment dated 19-7- 2005. The learned Government Pleader for Transport has not disputed this submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner. In view of the same and following the above Judgments, this Writ Petition is allowed in terms thereof, with the direction that the reasons and the directions contained therein shall form part of this order. __________________________ C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY.,J Date : 15-4-2011 AM