IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF DECEMBER, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY WRIT PETITION No.17664 of 1999 Between: K.Hari Gopala Reddy and another. … Petitioners And The Chairman, Sri Venkateswara Grameena Bank, Chittoor, Chittoor District. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: Sri K.Narsi Reddy for Sri P.Gangarami Reddy. Counsel for the respondents: None. This Court made the following: ORDER:- This Writ Petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “…to issue a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondent in seeking to withhold the promotion of the petitioners to Scale-II category on the basis of the departmental enquiry pending against the petitioners as illegal and arbitrary and consequently direct the respondent to promote the petitioners to scale-II category without taking into consideration the pendency of departmental enquiry against the petitioners”. At the hearing, Sri K.Narsi Reddy, counsel representing Sri P.Gangarami Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners, submitted that the cause in the Writ Petition does not survive for consideration and that the Writ Petition may be dismissed as infructuous. In view of the same, the Writ Petition is dismissed as infructuous. As a sequel to dismissal of the Writ Petition, WPMP No.22005 of 1999 is also dismissed as infructuous. ------------------------------------ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date: 24-12-2008 MNR