IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No. 13869 of 1997 Between: Sirigineedi Srinivasa Rao ..... PETITIONER AND The Branch Manager, Indian Bank, Alamuru, E.G. District. .....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 an order, direction or any appropriate writ more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondent herein in withholding the gold ornaments pledged in J.L.No. 1522/95 in L.F.No. 264/49 dated 16.10.1995 even after petitioner paid the entire loan amount with interest on 26.6.1997, by insisting the petitioner to take loan again by pledging the same to credit the said amount to the loan account of his wife as illegal, null and void and arbitrary and without jurisdiction and for a consequential order directing the respondent to return back the pledged gold ornaments forthwith. Counsel for the Petitioner : Mr.CH.DHANAMJAYA Counsel for Respondent : Mr.C.PRADEEP KUMAR The Court made the following : ORDER: Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that no cause survives in this writ petition and it has become infructuous. Recording the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, this writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. No order as to costs. _____________ N.V.RAMANA, J Date: 19.4.2005 DA/SVV To 1. The Branch Manager, Indian Bank, Alamuru, E.G. District. 2. Two CD copies.