IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 8759 of 2006 Between: M. Jagan Mohan Rao, S/o. M. Suryanarayan, Hindu, R/o. Medical & Health Colony, R.R. District. ..... PETITIONER AND Osmania University, Rep by its Registrar, Osmania University, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENT Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue any writ or order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus by declaring the action of the respondent in relaxing the age limit for the post of lecturer by ﬁve years only as illegal and arbitrary and direct the respondent to relax the age limit by seven years in so far as the petitioner is concerned in view of the failure of the university not recruiting the lecturers for a period of 12 years as illegal and arbitrary. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.RAJA REDDY KONETI Counsel for the Respondent: MR.DEEPAK BHATTACHARJEE The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU W.P. No. 8759 of 2006 O R D E R: This writ petition is ﬁled seeking a Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in relaxing the age limit for the purpose of Lecturer by ﬁve years only, as arbitrary and illegal, and consequently to direct the respondent to relax the age limit by seven years, insofar as the petitioner is concerned. At the time of admission, no interim was passed. Now the learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the cause in the writ petition does not survive anymore. In the circumstances, the writ petition is liable to be dismissed. It is accordingly dismissed as having become infructuous. C.V. RAMULU, J. Date: 23-09-2008. MVB.