IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, TWO THOUSAND NINE PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.8075 of 2002 Between: Sri Chowdeswari Temple, rep., by its Trust Member Sri K. Muni Reddy, Palamaneru Taluk, Chittoor District. … Petitioner AND The District Collector, Chittoor, & others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri Rammohan Kantrigala This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.8075 of 2002 ORDER:- This writ petition is filed for a writ of Mandamus to declare conduct of auction of fishing rights on 26.11.2001 by the respondents in respect of Elnagaram Cheruvu of Chintala Elnagaram village (Sivunikuppam revenue village), Cheldinaripalle post, V.Kota Mandal, Chittoor District, as illegal and arbitrary. A perusal of the proceeding sheet shows that on 25.04.2002, this Court granted order of status quo with the observation that the said order does not preclude respondent No.5 to catch the fish in the abovementioned tank till 30.06.2002. As nearly seven years elapsed since then, the cause in the writ petition would not be surviving as presumably the very period for which the auction is conducted would have been over. In view of the same, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous with liberty to the petitioner to assert its right in respect of the fishing rights over the tank in dispute as and when such a necessity arises in future. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition as infructuous, WPMP.Nos.10077, 12642 of 2002 and 34462 of 2005 are also dismissed as infructuous. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 06.02.2009 ES