IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD. HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU Writ Petition No. 8488 of 2000 Dated: 23rd August 2005 Between: B. Gnana Kumar … Petitioner And Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam, Tirupathi, Rep. By its Executive Officer … Respondent Oral Order: This writ petition is filed seeking a mandamus to declare the action of the respondent in not appointing the petitioner in one of the vacant Pharmacist Grade II posts available in Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam Hospitals as arbitrary and illegal. The learned counsel for the respondent, Sri A.K. Jayaprakasha Rao submits that as per the interim directions of this Court dated 9-5-2000, the case of the petitioner was taken up for consideration and in fact he was appointed as Pharmacist Grade II through the proceedings of the Executive Officer vide RoC.No.RT1/21991/98 dated 24-11-2000 and the petitioner joined duty w.e.f. 11-12-2000. In view of the submissions made by the learned counsel for the respondent, the cause in the writ petition does not survive, therefore, the writ petition is liable to be dismissed. It is accordingly dismissed as infructuous. No order as to costs. _________________ (C.V. Ramulu, J) 23rd August 2005 svs