Citation : 2023 Latest Caselaw 1101 AP
Judgement Date : 23 February, 2023
HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R. RAGHUNANDAN RAO
WRIT PETITION No.1865 of 2023
ORDER:
The petitioner had executed a contract work for Operation &
Maintenance of CPWS Scheme to Kondepi & 27 other Habitations
in Tanagutur, Singarayakonda & Zarugumilli Mandal in Prakasam
District under various Agreement Nos.7/11/2017-18 dated
19.10.2019, Agreement No. /2020-221 dated 01-02-2021,
Agreement No. /2021-22 dated 13.12.2021, Agreement No. /2022-
23 dated 06.07.2022 for a sum of Rs.52,39,688/-, Rs.3,74,595/-,
Rs.49,84,118/- and Rs.25,55,063/- had been prepared. As the
payments of the said amounts have not been made by the
respondents, the petitioner has approached this Court, by way
of this writ petition.
2. A learned Single Judge of this Court, in similar
Circumstances, after considering the earlier orders of this Court,
by an order dated 08.02.2022 in W.P.No.3074 of 2022, had
directed that the respondents should pay the principal amount of
the bill raised by the petitioner therein while leaving it open to the
petitioner to agitate his right for interest.
3. In the said circumstances and following the said
judgment, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the
respondents to finalize the amounts payable to the petitioner
within a period of three weeks from today and in any event to pay
the amounts due to the petitioner within a period of six weeks
thereafter.
4. Needless to say, it would be open to the petitioner to
agitate his rights for payment of interest in an appropriate forum.
There shall be no order as to costs.
As a sequel, pending miscellaneous petitions, if any, shall
stand closed.
__ _________________________ R. RAGHUNANDAN RAO, J.
23.02.2023 RJS
HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R. RAGHUNANDAN RAO
WRIT PETITION No.1865 of 2023
23.02.2023 RJS
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