THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY and THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU W.P.No.5917 of 2010 Date of Order: 04-08-2010 Between 1. Didla Prasad and others ..Petitioners and 1. State of A.P., rep.by its Secretary, Department of Archaeology, Secretariat Bldgs., Hyderabad and others. ..Respondents The Court made the following Order: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY and THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU W.P.No.5917 of 2010 Oral Order : (Per Honourable Sri Justice A.Gopal Reddy) This writ petition is filed in the form of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by the petitioners, seven in number, to declare the Court Building at Avanigadda, Krishna District as protected monument under the provisions of A.P. Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1960 (for short “the Act”) and the Rules made thereunder contending that there is a historic background for the Court building at Avanigadda, which is a stone building constructed by the erstwhile British Government in the year 1897 and the same has to be preserved under the above Act. The counter filed by the 7th respondent discloses that pursuant to the decision taken by the High Court on administrative side, plans were approved for construction of two Court building complex at Avanigadda for a total plinth area of 19,200 square feet and on a request made by the District Judge, Krishna at Machilipatnam the High Court accorded permission for shifting of two Courts of Principal Junior Civil Judge and Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Avanigadda into the two storied building located in the premises of the Tahsildar office for temporary accommodation and the existing Court building was already demolished on 15-06-2010. The counter affidavit filed by the 6th respondent also discloses that the Government have accorded administrative sanction for a sum of Rs.248 lakhs for construction of two Court building at Avanigadda in G.O.Ms.No.95/AW (LA & J Home Courts A1) department, dated 04-06-2008. Basing on the same the Chief Engineer (R&B) Buildings, Hyderabad in Memo dated 02-03-2009 accorded technical sanction. Tenders were called for dismantling the existing Court building and agency was settled vide DR agreement 47/09-2010, dated 17-07-2009 for Rs.120 lakhs. Pursuant to the decision, work was already commenced by demolishing the old building. Therefore, no cause survives in the writ petition to declare the Court building as protected monument under the Act and the relief sought in the writ petition has become infructuous. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed as having become infructuous. No costs. ________________ A.GOPAL REDDY, J. ___________ K.C.BHANU,J. 04-08-2010 Murthy