WP(C) 1009/2011 BEFORE THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE T VAIPHEI Heard Mr N Barah, the learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr KN Choudhury, t he learned Addl. Advocate General, Assam appearing on behalf of the State respon dents. Also heard Mr MK Choudhury, the learned senior counsel assisted by Mr SU Ahmed, the learned counsel for the private respondents. At the outset, the learned Addl. Advocate General, Assam draws my attention to t he letter dated 05.09.2011 issued by the Commissioner & Special Secretary to the Govt. of Assam, Public Works (Roads) Department, Dispur and makes a statement t hat the Govt., on his advice has agreed to cancel the entire selection process a s well as the selection list prepared by the Selection Committee and the list pr epared by the Deputy Commissioner, Sonitpur District impugned herein and submits that these three writ petitions have become infructuous in view of this letter . It is however submitted by Mr N Barah, the learned counsel for the petitioners t hat this letter is not tantamount to an administrative order and is merely in th e form of communication to the learned Addl. Advocate General and not an order a nd as such these writ petitions cannot be said to be infructuous until and unles s an administrative order to that effect is passed by the appropriate authority. He, therefore, prays that these cases may be adjourned for a week’s time and at the same time the State respondents should be directed to issue an administrati ve order giving effect to the letter dated 05.09.2011. I have duly considered th e anxiety of the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as his submission. However, in the light of the aforesaid letter, I do not think it necessary to ke ep these matters pending. Even if an administrative order giving effect to the a foresaid letter is passed subsequently as desired by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners will only have a fresh cause of action and the iss ues in these cases will no longer survive for consideration on the issuance of t he administrative order. In that view of the matter, I am not inclined to keep t he cases pending and have decided to dispose of these writ petitions by directin g the State respondents to issue an administrative order covering all the petiti oners to give effect to the aforesaid letter dated 05.09.2011 within a period of two weeks’ from the date of receipt of this order. Order accordingly. On issuing the administrative order within the stipulated period of time, the St ate respondents shall communicate a copy of the administrative order to the lear ned counsel for the petitioners forthwith. It shall be open to the petitioners as well as the private respondents to approa ch this Court again if they are still aggrieved by the administrative order bein g passed by the State respondents. The letter dated 05.09.2011 is hereby made a part of the record and marked as ’X’. A copy of this order be furnished to the learned counsel for the petitioners as well as to the learned Addl. Advocate General, Assam and to the learned counsel for the private respondents.