HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO W.P. No.25403 of 1998 20.8.2007 Between Ravula Sreenivasa Rao and others ..Petitioners AND The General Manager (Personnel), Singareni Collieries Co. Ltd., ..Respondent :: JUDGMENT :: HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO W.P. No.25403 of 1998 This writ petition has been instituted initially by five individuals. They solicited for a declaration that the action of the respondent Singareni Collieries Company Limited canceling their appointments as Badili Workmen, is illegal. Subsequently, the petitioners 3, 4 and 5 have preferred not to prosecute the writ petition and they withdrew from the case. The writ petition stood dismissed as of 26.11.2000 insofar as petitioners 3, 4 and 5 are concerned. Today, the learned Standing Counsel for the Singareni Collieries has placed a fax communication received by them from the D.G.M.(Personnel) Mining of the Company informing that the first and second petitioners viz., Ravula Sreenivasa Rao and B.Ravi are employed as Badili Fillers and that they are presently working at GDK 5, Inc. and RKNT, SRP area respectively. Insofar as the other petitioners in this case are concerned, it is also informed that they have been paid monetary compensation of Rs.2 lakhs in lieu of dependant employment. Therefore, the cause in the writ petition does not survive any further. Recording the statement made by the learned Standing Counsel for the Singareni Collieries, this writ petition is dismissed, but however, without costs. The communication placed by the learned Standing Counsel is treated as forming part of the record of this case. _________________________________ NOOTY RAMA MOHANA RAO.J. 20.8.2007 psr