I N THE HI GH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD HON’BLE MRS. JUSTI CE SUREPALLI NANDA WRI T PETI TI ON No.27509 OF 2025 DATE: 02.03.2026 Between :

M/s. Sahyaadri Constructions … Petitioner A n d The State of Telangana, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Public Health and Municipal Engineering Department, A.C. Guards, Hyderabad and others … Respondents

ORDER

Heard Sri Allam Ramesh, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner, learned Government Pleader for Medical Health and Family Welfare appearing on behalf of the respondent Nos.1, 4 and 5 and the learned Government Pleader for Finance and Planning appearing on behalf of the respondent Nos.2, 3, 6 and 7.

2. The petitioner approached the Court seeking prayer as under:

“…to issue a Writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the action of the Respondents in not releasing the approved outstanding final bill amount of Rs.56,18,887/-(Rupees Fifty Six Lakh Eighteen Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Seven Only) and not paying the net bill amount of Rs.50,64,209/- (Rupees Fifty Lakh Sixty Four Thousand Two Hundred and Nine Only) with interest due towards the work of "Development of Vaikuntadhmam at Raigiri Colony in Bhongir Municipality in Nalgonda District" executed by the petitioner firm as illegal, arbitrary, malafide, unjust and contrary to Conditions of Contract and consequently direct the respondents to forthwith release the admitted and approved outstanding final bill amount of Rs. 56,18,887/-(Rupees Fifty Six Lakh Eighteen Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Seven Only) and not paying the net bill amount of Rs.50,64,209/-(Rupees Fifty Lakh Sixty Four Thousand Two Hundred and Nine Only) with interest due towards the work of "Development of Vaikuntadhmam at Raigiri Colony in Bhongir Municipality in Nalgonda District" executed by the petitioner firm and pass such other order or orders as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case.”

3. The case of the petitioner in brief as per the averments made in the affidavit filed by the petitioner in support of the present Writ Petition is as under:-

i) The petitioner firm was awarded the work of “Development of Vaikuntadhmam at Raigiri Colony in Bhongir Municipality, Nalgonda District” under Agreement dated 24.08.2021. After delay in handing over the site and resolving local boundary disputes, the petitioner executed the work as per the terms of the agreement.

ii) The work was completed and the final bill for an amount of Rs.56,18,887/- was duly measured, certified and approved by the competent authorities, and the completed project was also taken over by the municipality for public use.

iii) However, despite completion of the work, approval of the final bill and repeated requests by the petitioner, the respondents have not released the outstanding final bill amount. Aggrieved by the inaction of the respondents in releasing the approved bill amount, the petitioner has filed the present writ petition.

4. PERUSED THE RECORD:

(A) The relevant portion of the judgment dated 08.03.2019 passed in M/ s. Surya Constructions Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh and others reported in (2019) 16 SCC 794 by the Two Judge Bench of the Apex Court in Civil Appeal No.2610 of 2019 (Arising out of SLP (C) No.29505 of 2014), is extracted hereunder:

“…It is clear, therefore, from the aforesaid order dated 22.03.2014 that there is no dispute as to the amount that has to be paid to the appellant. Despite this, when the appellant knocked at the doors of the High Court in a writ petition being Writ Civil No.25126 of 2014, the impugned judgment dated 02.05.2014 dismissed the writ petition stating that disputed questions of fact arise and that the amount due arises out of contract. We are afraid the High Court was wholly incorrect inasmuch as there was no disputed question of fact. On the contrary, the amount payable to the appellant is wholly undisputed. Equally, it is well settled that wh