\:§ HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WRIT PETITION No. 4499 of 2004 Jani Ram Sahu S/o Shri Gokul Sahu= Aged 56 years, General Secretary, Bhaltiya Koyla Khadan Mazdoor Sangathan R/o M-237, Urja Nagar, SECL Gevra Project Korba (C.G.) PETITIONER : VERSUS RESPONDENTS '. 1. State of Chhattisgarh throught the Secretary, Deptt. of Labour, D.K.S. Bhavan, Raipur (C.G.) 2. Registrar, Trade Unions Act, 1936, Labour Comissioner OiYlce, Geetanjali Nagar, Shankar Nagar, Raipur (C.G.) 3. Labour Cormm'ssioner, Labour Connnissioner Office, Geetanjali Nagar, Shankar Nagar; Raipur \C G ) 4. Industrial Court through Its presrdmg Oifrcer, Rarpur (C G) 5. Prakash Bhosle S/o Shri Shankar Bhosle, Aged 35 years Vikas Nagar PO Kusrnunda, Dist. Korba (c G) 6. Kash1 Nath Mrshra S/o Shrr Jagannath Mrshra, Aged 54 years Pump House Korba (C G) . 7. Nathu Ram Yadav, S/o Shri D.Yadav, Aged 47 years, P.O. Sirki, Dist. Korba. 8. Rameshwar Sahu S/o Shri A.R.Sahu, Aged 3 years, P.O. Gevra, Dist. Korba. 9. Shashi Bhushan Kashyap S/o Shri Gorelal Kashyap, Aged 48 years, P.O Kusmunda, Dist. Korba (C.G.) 10.G.N.Jha S/o Shri Nilambar Jha, Aged 48 years, Pandhra Block, Dist. Korba (C.G.) 11.Dilip Kumar Yadav S/o Shri M.L.Yadav, Aged 37 years, P.O. Kusmunda, Dist.Korba (C.G.) ,, l2.Chanshyam Sharma S/o Shri M.P.Sharma, Aged 39 years, P.O. Gevra, Dist. Korba (C.G.) 13 Sanjay Kumar Singh S/o Shri G P Singh, Aged 35 years, S B S Colony, Dist Korba 14 Jogeshwar Sahu S/o Shri C M Sahu Aced 52 years Gevra Head Quarters Dist Korba (C G) 15.Ghashyam Soni, S/o Shri B.P.Soni, Aged 41 years, P.O. Kusmunda, Dist. Korba. 16.Shankar Lal Sahu S/o Shri Karthik Ram Sahu, Aged 54 years, P.O. Banki, Dist. Korba (C.G.) 17. Puni Ram Sahu S/o Shri Bhau Ram Sahu, Aged 42 years, P.O. Gevra, Dist. Korba (C.G.) 18.Shri Satya Piakash Verma, Asstt. Labour Commissioner, Raipur (C.G.) 19.Chairman—cum—Managing Director, South Eastern Coalfields Ltd. Seepat Road, Bilaspur (C.G.) WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 226/227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA 6 W SB: Hon’ble Shri Satish K. Agnihotri. J. Present: Shri Anand Dadariya, Advocate for the petitioner. L Shri AS.Kachhwaha, Deputy Advocate General for the State. Shri Ashok Shukla, Advocate for the respondent Nor 5 to 7 and 9 to 19 Shri ABhishek Sinha, Advocate for the respondent No. 19. ORAL ORDER (Passed on##— 23 day of January, 2009) Leamed counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the term of election which is under challenge here, has already come to an end and thereaher two elections have taken place on 10.04.2004 and 24.04.2006, still some dispute survives for adjudication. Therefore, this matter should be heard. It is well settled principle of law that if the matter has become iniiuetuous on the facts ofthe case and question remains to be decided for academic purpose, it is not necessary to examine the case, as observed by Hon’ble Supreme Court in several matters. (See Basheshar Narh v. Commissioner of Income Tax, Delhi and Rajasthan and another’, Dham’pakar Madan Lal Agrawai v. Rajz'v Gandhiz, Secretary, ' Ministry offnjtyrmatz'on & Boradcasting, Govt. oflndz'a and others v. CricketAssociation ofBengal and othersg, State ofMamp‘ur and others v. Chandam Manihar Singh", Ami! Das v. State ofBihars and Prakash Singh Badal and another v. State ofPunjab and others6. 3. This Court cannot adjudicate a matter which has already become inhuetuous and no relief can be granted to the petitioner. 4. Applying the above stated well settled principles of law to the facts of the case on hand, this petition has no merit. The petiton is dismissed accordingly. No order asto costs. 5. Cosequently, M(W)P No. 4840/2004 and 3058/2006, also stand disposed of. ; satish K- Agnihou-i i \\p Judge f ' ‘AIR 1959 sc 149 “W ’ " 2 1987 (Supp) SCC 93 3 1995 (2) SCC 161 4 1999 (7) scc 503 5 2001 (7) SCC-657 5 2007 (1) scc 1 ’