THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.8701 of 1996 Dated : 14-09-2005 Between: K.N.Ramdass. .. PETITIONER AND The Andhra Pradesh Small Scale Industrial Development Corporation Limited and another. .. RESPONDENTS ORDER: In this writ petition, a direction is sought to the first respondent to consider the case of the petitioner for promotion to the post of Manager as per the promotion policy of the first respondent corporation. Sri C.V.Bhaskara Reddy, learned counsel appearing for the first respondent would submit that the petitioner had taken voluntary retirement from service in the year 1999 itself and since he is no longer in the service of the first respondent Corporation, the relief sought for in this writ petition cannot be granted, since the cause itself does not survive. Sri A.K.Jaya Prakash Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that since he has not been informed about the subsequent filing of the writ petition, it would suffice, if the submission made by Sri C.V.Bhaskara Reddy, learned counsel for the first respondent, that the petitioner had taken voluntary retirement in the year 1999, is recorded and the writ petition is disposed of. Recording the submission of Sri C.V.Bhaskara Reddy, learned counsel for the first respondent, that the petitioner had taken voluntary retirement in the year 1999 and since the cause in the writ petition no longer survives, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. No order as to costs. __________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J Dated: 14-09-2005 Prv