IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, TWO THOUSAND NINE PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.19274 of 2002 Between: Thota Prakasa Rao … Petitioner AND National Highways Authority of India, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Dwarka, New Delhi & another. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri P. Nagendra Reddy This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.19274 of 2002 ORDER:- This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “… Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue an order or direction more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in laying the bye-pass road contrary to the Gazette notification and news paper publication dated 17.05.2002 as arbitrary, illegal and consequently direct the respondent authorities contrary to the approved plan not to lay the bye-pass road through the entire land in Sy.No.645/1 of Nandigama village and mandal, Krishna District in the interest of justice.” At the hearing, Sri P. Nagendra Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the writ petition has become infructuous. Recording the submission made by the learned counsel, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition as infructuous, WPMP.No.24224 of 2002 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is also dismissed as infructuous. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 12.02.2009 ES