IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.23166 of 1998 Between: 1 Vadlamudi Peda Somaiah S/o Lakshminarasaiah Vadlamudivaripalem (Village), Romplicherla (Mandal), Guntur District. 2 Nooka Gopala Krishna S/o Peraiah Machavaram, Vijayawada 3 Linga Kotaiah S/o Veeraiah Machavaram, Vijayawada 4 Jasti Rama Rao S/o Venkateswarlu Subbayapalem (Village) Romplicherla (Mandal), Guntur District. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Executive Engineer R & B Dept., Narasaraopet, Guntur District. 2 The Executive Engineer Panchayat Raj Dept., Narasaraopet, Guntur District. 3 The Executive Engineer Public Health Dept., Narasaraopet, Guntur District 4 The Executive Engineer Nagarjuna Sagar Project Canals Narasaraopet, Guntur District 5 The Zonal Manager A.P.Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Ltd., Vijayawada, Krishna District .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a Writ, Order or Direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the G.O.Ms.No.6, Transport, Roads and Buildings (B-III) Dept., dt: 12-1-1996 as illegal, arbitrary and irrational and consequently direct the Respondents to restore the old procedure for recovering the seignorage charges from the bills of the contracts by the R & B Department in accordance with the G.O.Ms.No.205, Transport, Roads and Buildings (B-III) Department dt: 8-10-1993. Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.D.KRISHNA MURTHY Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR ROADS & BUILDINGS The Court made the following: ORDER: Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the cause in the writ petition does not survive and it has become infructuous. Recording the said submission, the writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. No costs. _______________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Date: 17.03.2005 Nsr ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1 The Executive Engineer R & B Dept., Narasaraopet, Guntur District. 2 The Executive Engineer Panchayat Raj Dept., Narasaraopet, Guntur District. 3 The Executive Engineer Public Health Dept., Narasaraopet, Guntur District 4 The Executive Engineer Nagarjuna Sagar Project Canals Narasaraopet, Guntur District 5 The Zonal Manager A.P.Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Ltd., Vijayawada, Krishna District 6 Two CCs to GP for Roads and Buildings, High Court Buildings, Hyderabad (OUT) 7 Two CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{JPK}