HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY W.P.No.25993 of 2009 Date : 20-4-2011 Between : Boddapati Vijaya Kumar .. Petitioner And The Joint Director, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Hyderabad and another .. Respondents Counsel for petitioner : Sri K.Ananda Rao Counsel for respondents : Sri V.Ravi Kiran Rao The Court made the following : ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “….to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ declaring the action of the 2nd respondent in seizing the pass port of the petitioner on 19-7-2009 at Shamshabad Air Port and refused to return the same in spite of representations made on 21-7-2009 and 8-10-2009, as illegal, arbitrary, contrary to the provisions of the Passports Act 1967 and without any power or authority and consequently direct the respondents to release the passport of the petitioner forthwith…….” At the hearing Sri K.Ananda Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted that his client may be permitted to withdraw the Writ Petition with liberty to him to approach the competent criminal court before which the prosecution is pending. The Writ Petition is accordingly dismissed as withdrawn in terms of the prayer made. As a sequel to dismissal of the Writ Petition, WPMP No.36488/2010 is disposed of as infructuous. ____________________ C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy.,J Date : 20-4-2011 AM