THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.15443 of 2008 Dated: 25.10.2010 Between: M/s. Jindal Steel & Power Limited, rep. by its Authorized Signatory Susant Kumar Swain. .. Petitioner. And The Commissioner of Prohibition & Excise, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, And others. .. Respondents. ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking the following substantive relief: “..Honourable Court may be pleased to issue a writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ declaring the action of the 1st respondent and their officers in purporting to obstruct the transportation/movement of molasses liquid from the State to outside the State in the absence of any statutory power enabling the petitioner to do so under the provisions of the A.P. Excise Act, 1968, is arbitrary and without jurisdiction and direct the 1st respondent and their officers not to interfere with the transportation of molasses by the petitioner from the sugar factory of 3rd respondent to the factory of the petitioner, and grant such other relief as it deems fit in the circumstances of the case.” Today, when the matter is taken up for hearing, the learned Government Pleader for Prohibition & Excise submits that in pursuance of the interim orders passed by this Court on 18.07.2008, the petitioner has transported molasses to the State of Chattisgarh, after purchasing the same from the 3rd respondent, and therefore, nothing survives in this writ petition for further adjudication. In view of the above, the writ petition is closed. No order as to costs. _____________ C.V.RAMULU,J 25.10.2010 v v