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Writ petition is filed complaining that respondents are not making payment even for the payment of wages to the workers engaged by the contractor. Petitioner had entered into two agreements with the respondents. First agreement was for providing house keeping and hospitality services for general maintenance and upkeeping of Officer's rest house and supervisors rest house at Mangalore Central for which Ext.P1 work order was issued on 07.06.2018. Based on the second agreement Ext.P2 work order was issued on 18.11.2019 for providing infrastructure maintenance staff for the Palakkad General Maintenance and Upkeeping of Multi Disciplinary Training Centre. It is stated that petitioner has completed the work satisfactorily and despite his representation payment was not being made.

2. Learned Standing Counsel Shri S.Prasanth has filed a statement on behalf of the respondents stating that a sum of Rs.2,51,506/- has already been passed for payment to the petitioner on first and part bill dated 29.01.2019, on 20.02.2019 and second and part bill dated 15.07.2019 was passed on 14.08.2019 for Rs.2,31,780/- and yet another bill dated 21.01.2020 was also passed for a sum of Rs.3,00,8