IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARANCHAL AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 514 of 2006 (M/B) 1. Yugal Kishore Pant s/o Sri M.D. Pant, R/o Jawahar Jyoti, Damuadhunga, Haldwani, District Nainital. 2. Subhash Thapa s/o Sri Bishan Singh R/o Dubkhed Dariya, District Nainital. …….. Petitioners Versus 1. State of Uttaranchal through Secretary Excise, Civil Secretariat, Dehradun. 2. Excise Commissioner, Uttaranchal, Dehradun 3. District Magistrate, District Almora. 4. District Excise Officer, District Almora ……… Respondents ……….. Sri S. K. Mishra, Advocate on behalf of Sri Anil Kumar Joshi, Advocate for the Petitioners. Sri J.P. Joshi, Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the respondents. JUDGMENT Coram: Hon’ble Rajeev Gupta, C.J. Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. RAJEEV GUPTA, C. J. (Oral) Sri S. K. Mishra, Advocate on behalf of Sri Anil Kumar Joshi, Advocate for the Petitioners. Sri J.P. Joshi, Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the respondents. 2. Sri Mishra, the learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the writ petition now has become infructuous. 3. The writ petition, therefore, is dismissed as infructuous. 4. Consequently, CLMA No. 5186 of 2006 also stands dismissed as infructuous. (Prafulla C. Pant, J.) (Rajeev Gupta, C. J.) 25.07.2006 25.07.2006 A