IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 22978 of 2000 Between: R. Subba Raju, S/o Satynarayana Murthy, R/o Plot No.21, Prashanthi Estates, Tilak Road, Rajahmundry, East Godavari District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1. The Superintending Engineer, I & CAD, Irrigation Circle, Cuddapah. 2. The Chief Engineer, Medium Irrigation (I&CAD), Errum Manzil, Hyderabad. ...RESPONDENTS * * * ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a writ of Mandamus declaring the petitioner as having requisite qualification to tender for the works as per tender notice dated 16.10.2000. The Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Circle, Cuddapah, has notified certain works relating to drilling and curtain grouting including drilling of drainage holes in the spillway gallery of Annamayya (Cheyyeru) project near Badanagadda (v), Rajampet (M), Cuddapah District. 2. It is the case of the petitioner that he is also qualified and seeks a writ of Mandamus to declare that he is entitled to be treated having requisite qualification. 3. So far as qualifications are concerned it is for the authority, which has issued tender notice, to examine the same and no Mandamus can be issued to declare that the petitioner is qualified even before scrutiny of the qualifications of the petitioner by the competent authority. Moreover, the writ petition was filed in the year 2000. It is submitted by the learned Government Pleader the said works, notified, were already entrusted to third parties and also completed and in that view of the matter, no further direction can be issued as sought for. 4. The writ petition is devoid of merits and the same is dismissed. No costs. ________________________ R.SUBHASH REDDY, J. Date: 29th September 2005. BSB