HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WRIT PETITION No. 4280 of 2004 WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA SB: Hon’ ble Shri Satish K. Agnihotri. J. Present: Shn Vivek Vermaa Advocate tor the petitioner Shm Shashank Thakm‘, Panel Lawyer for the State/respondent No 1 to 4 and 6 Shr1 F S Khare Advocate for the respondent No 5 ORAL ORDER (Passed on 20m day of January, 2009) The petitioner impugts the order dated 12.10.2004 (Annexure P/4) pas‘se‘d by the State Transport Appellate Tribunal in Revision Case No. 163/2004 whereby the dispute with regard to grant of permit for a period from 01.11203 to 31.10.2008 was remanded back to the Regional Transport Authority, Chhattisgarh, Raipur, to consider the matter ahesh and pass orders within a period of one month. 2. Shri Khare, learned counsel appearing for the respondent No. 5, per contra, submits that the period of stage carriage permit has come to an \ end on 3 l . 10.2008, thus, this petition has become in&uctu0us. PETITIONER : T.O.U. Bus Service: Proprietor Kanti Chopra, S/o Late Shri C.L.Chopra, Aged about 38 years, R/o Ganjpara, Durg (C.G.) VERSUS RESPONDENTS : 1. State Transport Authority, Chhattisgarh, Raipur 2. Reglonal Transport Authorxtv Chhattlsgarh Raipm 3. Reglonal Transport Authority, Jagdalpur. 4. Secretary,R.T.A Jagdalpur. 5. Nand Kishore Jain R/o Vikas Nagar, Kondagaon. 6. State of Chhattisgarh, Through Chief Secretary, Raipur. The issue raised by the petitioner as to whether the order passed by the Regional Transpoxt Authority is illegal or not: is academic for want of the facts. Be that as it mayi it is trite law that if a case has become infructuous on the facts of the case and questions remains to be decided for academic purpose, it is not necessary to examine the case (See Basheskar Nat}: v. Commissioner of Income Tax, Dethz‘ and Rajasthan and another', Agrawal v. Rajz‘v Gandhiz, Secretaiy, Ministwy Dhartipakar Madam Lal rad others v. Cricket r33, State of Manipur and others v. Chandam Manihar Singh", Ami! Dos v. State of Bil/tar; and Prakash Singh Badai and another v. State ofPurzjab and others". In View of the foregoinga this petition stands dismissed. No order asto of Information & Boradcasting, Govt. of India a Association of Bengal and othe costs. Cosequentty, M(W)P No. 4636/2004, also stands dismissed. M {AIR 1959 so 149 3 1995 (2) soc 161 4 1999 (7) soc 593 5 2001 (7) soc 657 $2007 (1) soc 1 4 1987 (Supp) soc 93