HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY WRIT PETITION NO.17931 OF 2000 DATE:11.07.2007 Between: Y. Venkatramana Reddy & another ..... PETITIONERS AND The Principal Secretary to Government, Municipal Administration, Secretariat, Hyderabad & others. .....RESPONDENTS HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY W.P. No.17931 OF 2000 ORDER: The petitioners were allotted two shops situated at Bangalore Bus-Stand, Madanapalle, Chittoor District belonging to the Madanapalle Municipality-third respondent herein. On expiry of the lease period, for recovery of arrears of rent payable by the petitioners, the third respondent filed suits in O.S.Nos.77 and 78 of 1999 on the file of Senior Civil Judge, Madanapalle. Subsequent to the filing of the said suits, the petitioners approached this Court by filing the present writ petition seeking a writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not reducing the rent to the petitioners’ shops on par with other shops, as arbitrary and illegal. None appears for the petitioners. Learned standing counsel for the third respondent produced a letter addressed by the Commissioner, Madanapalle stating that the suits filed by the third respondent have already been decreed in its favour. Under these circumstances, exercising the discretionary relief of issuing mandamus does not arise. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. No costs. ________________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J 11th JULY, 2007. Tsr