IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH, AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No. 30976 OF 1998 Date:07.07.2006 BETWEEN: 1. Boya Venkateswarlu and others …. PETITIONERS And 1. The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. By its Secretary, Irrigation Department, Secretariat buildings, Hyderabad, and others. …. RESPONDENTS ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking for a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not making payment of enhanced compensation to the petitioners as per the decree passed in their appeals by the Hon’ble High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad is arbitrary and illegal. This Court while admitting the writ petition on 9.11.1998 granted interim direction to the respondents to deposit the enhanced compensation amount as decreed by the High Court in the appeals to the credit of petitioners’ respective O.Ps., within a period of three months. As the said interim direction was not complied with the petitioners filed C.C.No.616 of 1999. As the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader appearing on behalf of the respondents therein submitted that the amounts have been deposited before the Courts concerned towards the compensation for the acquired lands and no further orders are necessary, the Contempt Case was closed by order dated 22.11.1999. In view of the subsequent developments, the cause in the writ petition does not survive. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is dismissed as infructuous. No costs. ________________ (C.V. Ramulu, J.) 7th July, 2006 Js.