IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THURSDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.26037 OF 2006 Between: A.Chandra Sekhar Rao. … Petitioner AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by Director, Ground Water Department, B.R.K.R.Bhvan, Tank Bund Road, Hyderabad And two others. … Respondents This Court made the following: O R D E R : The petitioner, an agriculturist and a resident of Lingayapalem Village, Tullur Mandal, Guntur District, filed the present writ petition aggrieved by the action of the respondent authorities in permitting sand quarrying operations in Tullur Mandal, inspite of a ban being imposed under Resolution No.8 dated 02-06-2006 passed by the District Level Sand Committee, Guntur. He accordingly sought a declaration that the proceedings dated 01-11-2006 and 23-11-2006 of the District Collector, Guntur, permitting such sand quarrying operations were illegal and a consequential direction to the respondents to implement Resolution No.8 dated 02-06-2006 passed by the District Level Sand Committee, Guntur District. 2. This Court, by interim order dated 23-01-2007, granted suspension of the impugned proceedings dated 01-11-2006 and 23-11-2006. 3. It is relevant to note that under Resolution No.8 dated 02-06-2006, the District Level Sand Committee, Guntur, taking into account the fact that the ground water had dried up owing to heavy sand quarrying operations, banned the same for a period of two years in the named reaches. Reach No.11 of Tullur Mandal was one of the reaches in which the said ban operated. 4. However, as this Court granted stay of the quarrying operations pursuant to the impugned proceedings passed in the year 2006 and as the period of the ban imposed under the Resolution dated 02-06-2006 has also expired, no further cause survives for adjudication in this writ petition. 5. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed as infructuous. No order as to costs. __________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: 17-02-2011. KVS/RKK THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.26037 OF 2006 February 17, 2011