JUDGMENT :

B. Vijaysen Reddy, J.

IA No. 1 of 2021:

1. This application has been filed by the appellants seeking review of the judgment dated 4.1.2021, passed in WA No. 143 of 2017, arising from an order dated 24.11.2016 passed by the learned Single Judge in WP No. 4159 of 2015.

2. Vide judgment dated 4.1.2021, the appeal preferred by the appellants (respondents in the writ petition) has been dismissed, and the judgment of the learned Single Judge has been upheld.

3. Though several pleas have been taken in the review application, Mr. C.R. Sridharan, learned Senior Counsel has confined his arguments to the following grounds:

(a) This Court, having noted down several decisions relied upon by the review petitioner in Paras 12 and 13 of the impugned judgment, did not consider the ratio laid down in the said decisions in the correct perspective inasmuch as the judgment in Praga Tools Corporation v. C.A. Imanual, (1969) 1 SCC 585, was disregarded and the Court failed to consider that a writ of mandamus lies only to secure performance of a public duty and not performance of obligations which are of a private character.

(b) There are contradictions in Para 28 of the judgment with regard to the Doc