THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.G.SHANKAR WRIT PETITION No.22736 OF 2001 Dated:24.08.2011 Between: K.S.Ravindran .. Petitioner And The Union of India, represented by General Manager, S.C.Railway, Rail Nilayam, Secunderabad and others .. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.G.SHANKAR WRIT PETITION No.22736 OF 2001 ORDER: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice V.V.S.Rao) The petitioner filed O.A.No.1303 of 2000 before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad, challenging the order dated 12.02.1999 transferring him from Guntur Division to Hyderabad in the existing vacancy, on administrative grounds. By order dated 15.03.2001, the learned Tribunal dismissed the said O.A. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner filed the instant writ petition. Learned Senior Standing Counsel for Railways submits that during the pendency of the writ petition, a departmental enquiry was conducted into two charges. After conducting enquiry, the competent authority passed an order of removal on 29.12.2002. However, the revisional authority modified the punishment and converted the penalty of removal to one of compulsory retirement, vide order dated 02.08.2004. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner filed O.A.No.732 of 2005 and the same was dismissed on 20.03.2009. In view of the above subsequent events, nothing survives in the writ petition and the same is, accordingly, dismissed as infructuous. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________ (V.V.S. RAO, J) ____________________ (K.G. SHANKAR, J) 24.08.2011 KH