THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No. 25615 of 2010 Oral Order: The petitioner, who claims to be a registered dealer under the provisions of A.P. Mineral Dealers Rules, 2000, states that he is entitled to procure or purchase the sand from any authorized place in the State of Maharashtra and his dealership is valid from 01.08.2007 to 31.07.2012. He further states that after obtaining valid transit passes/way bills from the District Mining Officer, Nanded, he lifted and transported sand from Nagni Sand Spot at Nagni Village, Nanded District, and stored the same in Sy.No.45/A/2 situated at Biknelly Village, Bodhan Mandal, Nizamabad District, which is the place of his business as mentioned in his license granted by the Deputy Director of Mines and Geology, Nizamabad. Thereafter, he submitted an application to respondent No.4- Assistant Director of Mines and Geology, Nizamabad, on 02.09.2010 to issue transit passes for transportation of sand in the State of Andhra Pradesh. Thereupon, respondent No.4 addressed to the District Mining Officer, Nanded, so as to verify the genuineness of the waybills issued by him, and the District Mining Officer, by his letter dated 30.09.2010, reported that the said waybills are genuine. Now, the grievance of the petitioner is that in spite of the said report of the District Mining Officer that the waybills issued in his favour are genuine, the 4th respondent, for the reasons best known to him, is not issuing transit passes for transportation of sand in the State of Andhra Pradesh, and his requests to respondents 2 and 3 to do the needful in the matter, went in vain. Hence, he filed the present writ petition seeking appropriate directions. The respondents filed detailed counter-affidavit, admitting that the District Mining Officer, Nanded, submitted report to the effect that the waybills issued in favour of the petitioner are genuine. It is further stated that in view of verification and cross-checking about the source of material obtained by the petitioner, the delay has taken place and now there is no objection for the authorities to issue transit passes to the petitioner. Today, across the Bar, the learned Government Pleader for Mines and Geology submits that if the petitioner approaches the 4th respondent, they have no objection to issue the transit passes required. In view of the said submission, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the petitioner to approach the 4th respondent for issuance of transit passes and on such approach, the 4th respondent shall issue the required transit passes to him. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No order as to costs. __________________ JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA 9th November, 2010 Note:- Issue CC in two days. B/o IBL