A. V. SRINIVASA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) IN this petition filed under arts. 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India the prayer is to quash the impugned endorsement Annexure-G dated 23-2-2001 issued by the respondents directing the petitioners to cure the defects contained in the application for renewal made by the petitioner in respect of hoardings already erected by the petitioners and further informing the petitioners that in the event of failure on the part of the petitioners to cure the defects noted by the respondent within a period of 7 days that the respondents would act in accordance with the directions given by this court in the previous writ petitions filed by the petitioners. The petitioners allege that the impugned endorsement issued by the respondents is untenable and it is a manifestation of the pre-determined intention of the corporation to arbitrarily refuse the request of the petitioners for renewal of the licence.

( 2 ) THE number of hoardings involved in these petitions are 31. These hoardings are already in existence and the application made by the petitioners to the corporation was for renewal of the licence earlier granted or for renewal of the deemed licence. In the p

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