D. S. R. VARMA, J. ( 1 ) THE appellant herein is the 2nd respondent in the writ petition. The appeal is filed against the orders passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in w. P. No. 877 of 2002, dated 16-4-2002 declaring the acceptance of the tender of the 2nd respondent by the 1st respondent for sanitation work in Janagaon Municipality as illegal. ( 2 ) RULE 5 (2) of the A. P. Municipalitiestender Rules, 1967 contemplates that tenders from the registered contractors only shall be considered. ( 3 ) THE learned Counsel for the appellantsri Ramamohan Reddy submits that the appellant is a registered contractor, registered with the State Government. ( 4 ) A fair reading of Rule 5 (2) of the Rulesreveals that the Contractor shall be registered with the Municipality. Therefore, in view of the explicit language incorporated in Rule 5 (2) of the Rules, we are of the view that the learned Single Judge is right in dismissing the contract which was granted in favour of the appellant. ( 5 ) IT was brought to our notice thatpursuant to the judgment of the learned single Judge, the writ petitioner-1st respondent herein has been allotted the work on 24-4-2002 and he has been performing the work. ( 6 ) IN view of the above, the writ appealhas to be dismissed. The appeal is accordingly dismissed. No costs.