HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SRI G.S. SINGHVI Writ Petition No.5752 of 1995 Between: M/s.S.V. Contractors … Petitioner And Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Secretary, Irrigation & C.A.D. Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad and five others. … Respondents :: ORDER:: Counsel for Petitioner : Sri M.R.K. Chowdary December 14, 2005 In this petition the petitioner has prayed for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus declaring the action of Executive Engineer, Telugu Ganga Project Division-I, Velugodu in directing respondent No.6 Bank of Baroda to release an amount of Rs.7.66 lakhs by way of Demand Draft by invoking the bank guarantee No.BG No. 36/15 dated 19-6-1991 and BG No.36/40 dated 31-10- 1991 offered by the bank in favour of the petitioner as illegal and arbitrary and to direct the respondents to pay the bills in the matter of work done in respect of embankment of Veligodu Balancing Reservoir from KM 6.450 to KM 9.264. Learned counsel for the petitioners says that during the pendency of the writ petition this Court had stayed encashment of the bank guarantee and with the passage of time, the prayer made in the writ petition has become infructuous. In view of the statement made by the learned counsel, the writ petition is disposed of as infructuous. G.S. SINGHVI, CJ December 14, 2005 svs