IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 9944 of 2002 Between: K.G.Gangadharan, S/o.K.Govinda Reddy, Sarpanch, Pichatur Grama Panchayath, Pichatur Mandal and Town, Chittor District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Chief Commissioner of Land Administration, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Nampally Station Road, Hyderabad 2 The District Collector, Chittoor. 3 Mr.T.B.Doraivel Reddy, S/o.Hussan Reddy, R/o. Pichatur Town and Mandal, Chittoor District. ....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.G.SUDHEER FOR MR.M.P.CHANDRAMOULI Counsel for respondents 1 and 2: GP FOR REVENUE Counsel for respondent No.3: MR P.VENUGOPAL The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is ﬁled for the following substantive relief: “For all the reasons stated above, it is prayed that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue a Writ , order or direction, more in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the action of the 1st respondent in according permission for the assignment of 0-60 cents of land in Sy.No.552/1A of Pitchatur Village in favour of the 3rd respondent as wholly arbitrary, illegal and without jurisdiction and void, consequently set-a-side the order in Ref. No. Spl.B3/333/2002 dated 02-04-2002 passed by the 1st respondent and direct the respondents to resume the land from the 3rd respondent and handover the same to the Gram Panchayath for development as otherwise, the petitioner will be put to serious and irreparable loss and hardship” It is represented by Sri G.Sudheer, learned counsel representing Sri M.P.Chandramouli, learned counsel for the petitioner, that despite several letters addressed by them, the legal representatives of the deceased sole petitioner have not approached them to come on record. He, therefore, reported no instructions. As the only petitioner in the writ petition died, and no steps are taken by his legal representatives to come on record, the writ petition is abated. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed as abated. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition as abated, interim order dated 05-06-2002 is vacated and WPMP No.12208 of 2002 is dismissed. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 22nd August, 2008 vrn