IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE :PRESENT: THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM AND THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO : 27960 of 2008 Between: Sri M.Narayan Reddy S/o Late Patel Reddy ..... Petitioner AND 1 The Govt. of A.P, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad, Rep. by its Principal Secretary 2 The Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Nampally, Hyderabad 3 The A.P Rural Development Board, Hyderabad, Rep. by its Convener, Director of Civil Supplies Department, Govt. A.P, Hyderabad .....Respondents Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue appropriate writ, order or direction more particularly a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondent No.1 & 2 to credit the entire CESS collected under the A.P Rural Development Act 1996 with penal interest at 15% per annum to A.P Rural Development Fund and further direct the respondent No.3 to spend the fund for the purposes specified in Section 9 of the A.P Rural Development act 1996; The petition coming on for hearing, upon perusing the petition and the affidavit filed herein, and upon hearing the arguments of Sri G.Mohan Rao, Advocate for the Petitioner and of the G.P. for Revenue, for the Respondent No.1, and of G.P. for Commercial Taxes, for the Respondent No.2, and of the G.P.for Civil Supplies, for the Respondent No.3, the Court made the following; ORDER: “Since 31-12-2008 the matter has undergone seven adjournments with the learned Government Pleader for Revenue and the learned Special standing counsel for Commercial Taxes, having taken notice of the grievance in the writ petition. No responses however, have been filed by the respondents, in particular, respondents 1 and 2. In the circumstances, if no counters are filed by the respondents 1 and 2, by the next date of hearing, the Principal Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes shall appear in Court at 10-30 AM on 25-11-2009. Learned Government Pleader for Revenue and the learned Special Standing Counsel for the Commercial Taxes, are present in the Court, have noted this order and undertake to communicate the respondents 1 and 2 their obligations under this order. Post on 25-11-2009.” ASSISTANT REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // for ASSISTANT REGISTRAR To Form-NIC-IGS/WP {BMR}