IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND SIX PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE J.CHELAMESWAR WRIT PETITION No.19322 OF 1995 Between: J.Venkata Gopal @ Venkateswararao. ..... PETITIONER AND Government of India, rep. by its Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi and others. ....RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE J.CHELAMESWAR WRIT PETITION No.19322 OF 1995 O R D E R This Writ Petition is filed with a prayer as follows: “… Hon’ble High Court may be pleased to issue a Writ or order or direction particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus directing the Sec.13 and 20 of Family Courts Act as null and void by virtue of Art 13 of Constitution of India and further declare the Sec.13 of the Act as illegal, voilative of Principles of natural justice, contrary to the Statutory Acts, effecting the Fundamental rights of the Petitioner in particular and public at large in general, besides voilative of Arts.14, 15, 21, 19, 38 & 39 of the Constitution of India besides discriminative in nature and further declare the rights of legal Practioner also indirectly taking away by overriding the Advocates Act, 1961 which is unconstitutional and contrary to the Statutory rights of a Legal Practioner to Practice in any court or before any authority or Tribunal under Chapter IV of the Advocates Act, 1961 and further direct the Family Courts to expedite the Matrimonial Disputes by fixing a time limit in the interest of justice and further declare the rejecting the rights of the Petitioner to appoint an advocate/s of his choice by the Family court by virtue of Sec.13 of the Family Courts Act, 1984 as illegal, unconstitutional and violative of principles of natural justice and pass such other …” When the matter is taken up today, none appears for the petitioner and there is no representation on his behalf. In the circumstances, the writ petition is dismissed for non-prosecution. There shall be no order as to costs. ----------------------------------- JUSTICE J.CHELAMESWAR 29th MARCH, 2006 PGS THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE J.CHELAMESWAR WRIT PETITION No.19322 OF 1995 29th MARCH, 2006