THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NOS.25702 AND 25703 OF 2006 DATED 28TH JUNE, 2011 BETWEEN Koneru Koteswar Rao and another. …Petitioners And The Government of A.P., Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Panchayat Raj Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad, And others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NOS.25702 AND 25703 OF 2006 C O M M O N O R D E R The petitioners in these two cases assailed the action of the Goshala Gram Panchayat, Penamaluru Mandal, Krishna District, in shifting the graveyard from R.S.No.41 in Goshala Village to R.S.Nos.2 and 7 in Goshala Donka on the ground that the procedure prescribed in the Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 was not followed. It was their grievance that shifting of the graveyard would affect the rights of the villagers of Goshala as well as Edupugallu Villages. This Court, by orders dated 11.12.2006 passed in both the writ petitions, directed status quo existing as on that day to be maintained for a period of three weeks. This direction was extended by four more weeks by order dated 26.12.2006. There was no further extension thereafter. When the matters came up for hearing before this Court on 24.03.2011, the learned counsel were asked to ascertain the present position owing to the expiry of the interim orders granted earlier. The Panchayat Secretary of Goshala Gram Panchayat, Penamaluru Mandal, Krishna District, thereupon filed his counter dated 13.06.2011 stating that the shifting of the graveyard was effected in accordance with the due procedure after obtaining necessary permission from the competent authority on 04.12.2006 itself. Thus, even by the date this Court directed status quo to be maintained, the shifting of the graveyard had already been accomplished. No reply is filed by the petitioners rebutting this factual statement. As the graveyard was shifted as long back as in the year 2006, the challenge of the petitioners to such shifting no longer survives for adjudication at this late stage. The Writ Petitions are accordingly dismissed. Interim orders shall stand vacated. Miscellaneous petitions filed in these cases shall stand dismissed in consequence. No order as to costs. ---------------------------- SANJAY KUMAR, J. 28TH JUNE, 2011. PGS/VGSR