HON’BLE SHRI G.S.SINGHVI, THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE G.BHAVANI PRASAD WRIT PETITION No. 466 of 2006 Between: M/s Radhika Silk Mills (P) Ltd. Represented by its Chairman-cum-Managing Dikrector Mr. Rajesh Kumar Agarwal, Pedashapur (v) of Shamshabad Mandal, Ranga Reddy Dist. & another .. Petitioners AND Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board Represented by its Member Secretary ‘Paryavarana Bhavan’ A-3, Industrial Estate, Sanathnagar, Hyderabad. ..Respondent. Counsel for the petitioners: Sri V.M.M.Chary for M/s S.Nirangan Reddy Counsel for the Respondent.Mr. S.V.Bhatt Dated: February 13, 2006 O R D E R: Per G.S.Singhvi, C.J. This is a petition for issuance of a direction to Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (for short ‘the Board’) to permit the petitioners to operate their industry situated at Pedashapur (V), Shamshabad Mandal, Ranga Reddy District and to suspend the operation of order dated August 7, 2005 and December 28, 2005 passed by the Board. Learned counsel for the petitioners has sent an application for permission to withdraw the writ petition. Sri S.V.Bhatt, learned counsel for the Board says that he does not have any objection. In view of the above, we accept the request of the learned counsel for the petitioners and grant leave to his clients to withdraw the writ petition, which is dismissed as withdrawn. While granting leave to the petitioners to withdraw the writ petition, we, keeping in view the direction contained in order dated January 6, 2006 ordain the Registry to treat this writ petition as a case in public interest and list the same before the Court on February 22, 2006 after assigning fresh number. On that date, the Court will examine the affidavit to be filed on behalf of the Board on the issue of existence of polluting industries in the catchment and upstream areas of Osman Sagar and Himayatsagar lakes. G.S.SINGHVI, C.J. February 13, 2006 G.BHAVANI PRASAD, J. GRR