IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 19998 of 2003 Between: Yaraguntla Chandra Sekhar, S/o Yellaiah, R/o R.L. Puram Village, Chimakurthy Mandal, Prakasham District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Mandam Ramanjaneyulu, S/o Audl Seshaiah, R/o Rajupalem lakshmipuram Village, Chimakurthy Mandal, Prakasham District. 2 T. Ramanaiah, Mynampadu Village, Santhanootalapadu Mandal, Prakasham District. 3 M. Raghava Rao, Mynampadu Village, Santhanootalapadu Mandal, Prakasham District. 4 the District Colector, Ongole. ..RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.POLISETTI RADHAKRISHNA Counsel for the Respondents: None apeared The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of Certiorari to quash order dated 02-09-2003 passed in O.P.No.20 of 2001 on the ﬁle of the Election Tribunal/Principal Junior Civil Judge, Ongole. Heard Sri P. Radhakrishna, learned counsel for the petitioner, and perused the record. The petitioner, who was elected as member of the 4th Ward of R.L.Puram Gram Panchayat, was disqualiﬁed on the purported ground that he begot third child after the cutoﬀ date and thereby incurred disqualiﬁcation to get elected as member of the Gram Panchayat. Though Sri P.Radhakrishna, learned counsel for the petitioner, made eﬀorts to convince this Court that the order suﬀers from illegalities, I do not feel inclined to adjudicate this issue on merits, having regard to the admitted fact that the term of the petitioner, for which he was elected as member of the Gram Panchayat has already expired and thereby the cause in the writ petition has become infructuous. Therefore, while dismissing the writ petition as infructuous, the issue of disqualiﬁcation of the petitioner is left open to be agitated in appropriate proceedings, if need be, notwithstanding the ﬁndings rendered by the Principal Junior Civil Judge, Ongole, in O.P.No.20 of 2001. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 10th November, 2008 vrn