IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION NO : 21347 of 2002 Between: 1 D.Jagadishwar, Rep. by its Proprietor, Srinivias, Licence No. AP. 1060/E, 3-3-418/1, Mahankali Street, Secunderabad. 2 Jagannathdas Shah, Rep. by its Proprietor, Jagannathdas Shah, Licence No. AP. 880/E, 2-2-152/A, M.G.Road, Secunderabad. 3 Immedishetty Anantham Trading, Rep. by its Proprietor, I.Anantham, Licence No. AP. 665/E, 3-3-416, Mahankali Street, Secunderabad. 4 S.Srenivas Rao, Rep. by its Proprietor, S.Srenivas Rao, Licence No. AP. 2044/E, No.4, Mahankali Buildings, Secunderabad. 5 Jonnada Balaji & Company, Rep. by its Partner, J.Santosh Kumar, Licence No. AP. 601/E, 3-4-233, Tobacco Bazar, Secunderabad. 6 J.Manik Rao, Rep. by its Partner, J.Manik Rao, Licence No. AP. 1745/E, 3-4-62, Maka Bazar, Secunderabad. 7 Bandari Sreenivas, Rep. by its Partner, J.Manik Rao, Licence No. AP. 1960/E, 3-4-91, Maka Bazar, Secunderabad. 8 S.Venkatesham, Rep. by its Proprietor T.Sreenivas, Licence No. AP. 1371/E, 3-4-92, NAKA Bazar, Secunderabad. 9 S.Sreenivas, Rep. by its Proprietor S.Sreenivas, Licence No. AP. 1722/E, 3-4-101, NAKA Bazar, Secunderabad. 10 S.Rama Murthy, Rep. by its Proprietor S.Ram Murthy, Licence No. AP. 1132/E, 7-1-707, Market Street, Secunderabad. 11 M/s. Kuntala Laxminarayana & Sons, Rep. by its Partner, K.Nagaraj, Licence No. AP. 1748/E, 3-4-88, Mahankali Monda, Secunderabad. 12 Shri Ashok Kumar Prop. Deep Bros, Rep. by its Partner, Rakesh, Licence No. AP. 2092/E, 15-6-522, Begum Bazar, Hyderabad. ...PETITIONERS AND 1 The Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad. 2 The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Central Zone, Hyderabad. 3 The Deputy Commissioner of Police, North Zone, Secunderabad. 4 Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mahankali, Ranijunj, Secunderabad. 5 Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sultan Bazar, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a Writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate Writ declaring that the action of the respondents police authorities in preventing the petitioners from conducting the business of Diwali fire Works/Crackers in their respective shops and insisting that the petitioners shall shift their business to outskirts of the City is arbitrary and illegal and direct the respondents not to interfere with the conduct of Diwali Fire Workds/Crackers business in the respective shops of the petitioners. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.V.VENKATARAMANA Counsel for the Respondent Nos.1 to 5: GP FOR HOME The Court made the following : ORDER: On the eve of Diwali/Deepavali in the year 2002, the petitioners, who are the businessmen in firecrackers, were allegedly prevented from doing their business. Seeking a direction to the respondents not to interfere with the conduct of Diwali crackers business, the present writ petition is filed. While admitting the writ petition this Court passed interim order, which was subsequently stood modified by a reason of the order passed by this Court in W.P.No.21419 of 2002. As rightly submitted by the learned Assistant Government Pleader, by a reason of the interim order, the petitioners carried on their business during Diwali in 2002 and therefore, there is no redressable grievance surviving as on today. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ____________ (V.V.S.RAO, J) 23.06.2005 vs To 1 The Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad. 2 The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Central Zone, Hyderabad. 3 The Deputy Commissioner of Police, North Zone, Secunderabad. 4 Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mahankali, Ranijunj, Secunderabad. 5 Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sultan Bazar, Hyderabad. 6 Two CCs to the G.P for Home, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad(O.U.T) 7 2 CD copies.