IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:20410 of 1996 Between: 1 M. Venkatamuni S/o. Gundalaiah R/o. Venkatagiri Town, Nellore District. 2 V. Subbaiah S/o. Chenhaiah R/o. Venkatagiri Town, Nellore District. 3 M. Muni Raja S/o. Venkata Muni R/o. Venkatagiri Town, Nellore District. 4 M. Muni Vara Prasad S/o. Rama Krishnaiah R/o. Venkatagiri Town, Nellore District. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The District Collector, (Panchayat Wing), Nellore. 2 District Panchayat Officer, Nellore, Nellore District. 3 The Executive Officer, Venkatagiri Grama Panchayat, Venkatagiri Mandal, Nellore District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.M.P.CHANDRAMOULI The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “For all the reasons stated in the accompanying affidavit, the petitioners herein pray that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue a Writ in the nature of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not continuing the services of the petitioners in the protected Water Supply Scheme in Venkatagiri Grama Panchayat and entrusting the job to contractors as wholly arbitrary illegal and void and consequently direct the Respondents to continue the petitioners service as Motor Watch and Maintenance Operation in the protected water Supply Scheme in Venkatagiri Grama Panchayat.” At the hearing, Sri M.P.Chandramouli, learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that during the pendency of the writ petition, Venkatagiri Gram Panchayat, respondent No.3, has become a Municipality. In view of this change, the cause in the writ petition against the Gram Panchayat does not survive for consideration. If the petitioners’ grievance continues even against the succeeding Municipality, they are given liberty to file a fresh writ petition impleading the Municipality as a party. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed with the said liberty. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 24th NOVEMBER, 2008. kvni