IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:16758 of 2004 Between: Nawab Shafath Ali Khan, S/o Late Nawab Arshad Ali Khan, R/o Ali Villa, 11-5-292, Hill Park Road, Red Hills, Hyderabad - 4. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Sports Authority of India, Rep. by its Executive Director, Netaji Subhash National Institute of Sports, Patiala, State of Punjab. 2 National Rifle Association of India, Rep.by its Secretary General, Room No. 116, Gate No. 26, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi - 110 003. 3 Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City, Hyderabad President Rifle Association of Andhra Pradesh. 4 Rifle Association of Andhra Pradesh. Rep. by its Secretary, 4-3-352, Bank Street, Koti,Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.RAMA RAO MAVIDI The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of mandamus to declare the action of respondent Nos.3 and 4 in not sponsoring the name of the petitioner for participation in the Big Bore Riﬂe Shooting Championship scheduled to be held at Indoor, Madhya Pradesh from 5th to 15th October, 2004, as illegal and arbitrary. At the hearing, Sri M.Rama Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that since the championship got concluded in 2004 itself, the cause in the writ petition does not survive for consideration. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 23rd OCTOBER, 2008. kvni