THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM AND THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN Writ Petition No. 8737 of 2009 Dated: 10-2-2010 Between: Mempally Mahender Goud …Petitioner and Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its District Collector, Nizamabad and others …Respondents. Order: (Per GR, J) The alleged inaction of the respondents 1 and 2 in directing closure of the 3rd respondent-industry, a parboiled rice mill, allegedly causing pollution in the locality, is the grievance in this writ petition filed in public interest. This Court had been monitoring the matter after issuing notice to respondents 1 and 2 in April, 2009 and had passed an order on 23-12-2009 directing the 2nd respondent to depute a Senior Environmental Engineer or any other appropriate technical authority to the premises of the 3rd respondent to ascertain whether the activities of the 3rd respondent are generating pollution. By an another order dated 20-1- 2010, the 2nd respondent was directed to ensure stoppage of all activities whatsoever by the 3rd respondent-industry until further orders of this Court. The 2nd respondent was also directed to expeditiously call for the reports of the Analyst on the effluents discharged by the 3rd respondent and the ambient air quality in and by the 3rd respondent-industry and to take a decision on the basis of the report received. A counter-affidavit has been filed by the 2nd respondent which states that on the basis of the instructions of the 3rd respondent-industry, on 18-1- 2010 after collection of samples and relevant data, a closure order dated 21-1-2010 was passed after consideration and analysis of the report received and the industry was ordered to stop all industrial activities with immediate effect i.e., from 21-1-2010. In the light of the orders dated 21-1-2010 passed by the 2nd respondent, the substantive grievance in this writ petition does not survive for adjudication. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed as infructuous. No costs. ___________________________ GODA RAGHURAM, J _______________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J 10th February, 2010. GRR