THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.896 of 1996 Dated: 15.09.2005 Between: Gollaprolu Mandal Fair Price Shop Dealers Welfare Association, rep. by its President S. Surapa Raju, s/o Venkateshwar Rao. ..... PETITIONER AND Government of A.P., Food and Civil Supplies-IV Department, Rep. by Ex. Officio Secretary to Government, Secretariat Buildings, at Hyderabad and 2 others. ....RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.896 of 1996 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking to declare the G.O.Ms.No.497, Food and Civil Supplies (IV) Department, dated 19.12.1995, making amendment to the guidelines issued in the Government Memo No.18835/CS.II/90-1, Food and Agricultural (Civil Supplies) Department, dated 22.03.1990 as arbitrary and illegal, and consequently to restrain the respondents from implementing the said G.O. When the matter is taken up for hearing today, none appears for the petitioner. Learned Government Pleader for Civil Supplies submitted that subsequent to filing of the present writ petition, new guidelines came into force vide G.O.Ms.No.57 in the year 2003, and therefore, nothing survives for adjudication in the writ petition and the matter has become infructuous. Recording the said submission, the writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. No costs. _______________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Date: 15.09.2005 Nsr