IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE P.V.SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO : 4928 of 2001 Between: Bapuji Kooragayala Varthaka Sangham, (Regd.No. 104/76) Rep by their Secretary, Sri.N. Munichandra Reddy, S/o Munaswami Reddy, R/o Puttur. Puttur Market, Tirupati Road, Puttur 517 583, Chittoor District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Secretary, Panchayat Raj, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 2 District Collector-cum-Commissioner, Panchayats Chittoor. 3 Gram Panchayat, Rep. by its Sarpanch, Puttur Gram Panchayat, Puttur. 4 M.S.Krishnaswamy, Sarpanch, Puttur Gram Panchayat, Puttur. 5 Gram Panchayat, Rep. by its Executive Authority- cum-Executive Officer, Puttur. .....RESPONDENTS 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 a Writ, direction or order preferably or orders preferably in the nature of Mandamus declaring the tender notice dt: 12-3-2001 issued by the 5th Respondent as illegal and void being violative of Arts. 14, 19 (1) (g) and 21 of the Constitution; and also being violative of principles of primissory estoppel as being opposed to the earlier resolution passed by the 3rd Respondent No.31 dt: 10-6-2000 and being violative of Sec.32 of A.P.Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 and further declaring the meeting convened by the 3rd Respondent for leasing out the shops in the vegetable market by convening the Gram Panchayat meeting dt: 10-3-2001 in Item No.73 seeking approval to conduct open auction relating to the vegetable market is bad in law; and also being violative of principles of natural justice and also being opposed to the undertaking given before this Hon'ble Court by the Respondents 3 to 5 as contained in the resolution dt: 10-6-2000 and forbid the respondents from proceeding in any manner in pursuance of the said tender notice; and further direct the Respondents 3 to 5 to allot the shops a per resolution dt: 10-3-2001 to the members of the petitioner Sangham. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.M.DORAI RAJ Counsel for the Respondent : MR.V.JAGAPATHI FOR R The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE P.V.SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No : 4928 of 2001 O R D E R: Sri M.Viswanatham, Advocate, representing Sri M.Dorai Raj, learned counsel for the Petitioner, submitted that the Writ Petition has become infrctuous. Recording the said submission, the Writ Petition is dismissed as infructuous. There shall be no order as to costs. _______________________ P.V.SANJAY KUMAR,J Date: 17-09-2008 KLP