IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE THIRTIETH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION NO : 15420 of 2009 Between: P. Srinivas S/o. Late Sri P.M. Gopal Rao R/o. D-20, Vikrampuri Colony, Opp. Apollo Hospital, Secunderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali, Mangalagiri Urban Development Authority, Governorpet, Vijayawada, Rep. By its Vice-chairman. .....RESPONDENT 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, Order or direction more particularly one in the nature of WRIT OF MANDAMUS declaring the action of the Respondent - Authority in not paying the Legal Fees and Expenses payable to the Petitioner herein for the cases handled by him as illegal, arbitrary, unfair and unreasonable and vioaltive of Articles 14, 19, 21 and 300-A of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the Respondent - Authority to immediately pay the amounts due to the Petitioner herein for the services rendered by him to the Respondent - Authority. Counsel for the Petitioner : MR. E.SATYANARAYANA Counsel for the Respondent: K. ARUNA(SC FOR V.G.T.M.U.D.A) The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No.15420 of 2009 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a declaration that the action of the respondent in not paying the legal fee for the cases handled by the petitioner as arbitrary and illegal. The petitioner is a practicing advocate. It is not in dispute that the father of the petitioner was appointed as a Standing Counsel for respondent-authority and had represented the respondent in several cases in different Courts including High Court and the petitioner herein had appeared along with his father till a new standing counsel was appointed in the year 2005. It is stated that he petitioner along with his father used to submit bills for payment of legal fees and expenses in all the cases in which they appeared on behalf of the respondent. However, many of the bills were kept pending in spite of repeated reminders. While so, the father of the petitioner died on 13.08.2007 and thereafter the respondent authority requested the petitioner to furnish certain details in the summary of case statement sent by him earlier so as to enable them to arrange the payment as per the bills presented. Accordingly, the petitioner submitted all the particulars required by the respondent. However, the respondent failed to consider and the legal fees to which the petitioner is entitled to has not been paid till today in many matters. Aggrieved by the said action of the respondent, the present writ petition is filed. I have heard the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned Standing Counsel appearing for the respondent. Having regard to the undisputed fact that the petitioner has submitted the bills and also furnished the particulars sought by the respondent, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the respondent to process the bills submitted by the petitioner forthwith and make the payment to which the petitioner is entitled as per law, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of this order. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. ___________ G.Rohini,J Date:30.07.2009 gbs