IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 17412 of 2008 Between: 1 M/s.Manda Venkata Ratnam & Others Bhimavaram,West Godavari District rep.by its Partner Manda Srinivas 2 M/s.Kuriseti Sreerama Murthy & Others Narasimhapuram, Bhimavaram-2,West Godavari District rep.by its Partner Kurisetti Sreerama Murthy 3 M/s.Sri Satya Sai Durga Traders,TAderu Road Bhimavaram, West Godavari District rep.by its Partner manepalli Badari Narayana 4 M/s.Sri Naga Venkata Srirama Satyanarayana Raw & Boiled Rice Mill,Taderu, Bhimavaram mandal,West Godavari District rep.by its Partner Kuriseti Satyanarayana Murthy 5 M/s.Sri Uma Someswara Rice Mill, Gunupudi Bhimavaram, West Godavari District rep.by its Partner Bondada Kumara Venkata Ratnam 6 M/s.Uddaraju Ananda Raju Company, Bhimavaram, West Godavari District rep.by its Partner Uddaraju Ramakrishnam raju 7 M/s.Sri Rama Haradev Taders, Narasimhapuram Bhimavaram, West Godavari District rep.by its Partner Kuriseti Satyanarayana Murthy 8 M/s.SriKalli Prasad babu Rice Traders Bhimavaram, West Godavari District rep.by its Partner T.N.V.S.S.Krishna Murthy 9 M/s.Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Traders, Undi Road,Narasimhapuram, Bhimavaram Mandal, West Godavari District rep.by its Partner T.P.V.Narasimha Rao 10 M/s.SRi Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Raw & Boiled Rice Mills,Srungavrusham,Palakoderu Mandal West Godavari District rep.by its Partner Kurmala Venkata Rama Mohan 11 M/s.Satya Lakshmi Traders, Vissakoderu, Palakoderu Mandal, West Godavari District Rep.by its Partner Tallapudi Sai Koteswara Rao 12 M/s.Sri Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Modern Rice Mill Srungavrusham, Palakoderu Mandal West Godavari District Rep.by its Partner Kurmala Narayana Rao 13 M/s.M.S.N.gupta & Co., Marellavari Street Bhimavaram, West Godavari District Rep.by its Proprietor Manepalli Satyanarayana Gupta 14 M/s.Kuriseti Perumallu & Others, Sunday Market Bhimavaram, West Godavari District rep.by its Partner Kuriseti Sai Ram Kumar 15 M/s.Jaya Lakshmi Traders, Bhimavaram, West Godavari District Rep.by its Partner Meragani China Appa Rao 16 M/s.Ram Traders, Vempadu , Kalla Mandal West Godavari District Rep.by its Partner Kosuri Rama Raju 17 M/s.R.R.Rice Traders, Akividu, West Godavari District Rep.by its Partner T.Naga Kumar Manikya Rao ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 Government of India., Ministry of Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution Department of Public Distribution Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi 2 The General Manager, Food Corporation of India., HACA Bhavan, Hiil Fort Road, Hyderabad 3 Food Corporation of India., District Office,Jubilee Road Tadeapalligudem -534101, Rep.by its District Manager .....RESPONDENTS 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 a writ or order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus: 1. Declaring the proceedings No.167(25)/2007-PY-1 dated 9.6.2008 issued by the 1st respondent modifying the price of levy rice for the khariﬀ marketing season 2007-08 as arbitrary, illegal, ultra vires violative of the petitioners rights guaranteed under Article 14,19(1)(g) and 300A of the Constitution of India. 2. declaring the action of the respondents in unilaterly making deductions from the running bills of the petitioners pursuant to the proceedings of the 1st respondent dated 9.6.2008 as arbitrary, illegal ultra vires violative of the petitioners rights guaranteed under Article 14,19(1)(g) and 300A of the Constitution of India and pass Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.P.BALAJI VARMA Counsel for the Respondents: MR.A.RAJASHEKAR REDDY (ASST SOLICITOR GEN) The Court made the following : ORDER: Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that no cause of action survives in this writ petition and seeks permission of this Court to withdraw the writ petition. Permission as sought for is accorded, and the writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn. _________________________ (B. Seshasayana Reddy, J.) 24th October, 2008 Js.