THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA Writ Petition No.25273 of 2008 ORDER: At the stage of interlocutory, the matter is taken up for hearing and disposal, at the request of the learned counsel appearing for both the parties. The petitioner, who claims to be the Sarpanch of Tholeru (V) Gram Panchayat, Veeravasaram Mandal, West Godavari District, filed the present writ petition for the following substantive relief: “For the reasons stated in the accompanying affidavit the petitioner herein prayed that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue writ or direction preferably writ of Mandamus declaring the inaction of the respondents in releasing various pensions to the needy people i.e., old age pension, widow pension, disabled pension, weavers pension and houses under category I to III as per the approved list by re- verification committee under Indiramma Padakam and sanctioning the benefits in favour of selective people as illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory and violative of principles of natural justice and consequently direct the respondents to sanction all the pensions as per the approved list of re-verification committee to all the beneficiaries if necessary by conducting Gramasabha.” The plea of the petitioner in this writ petition is that though there are several eligible persons in the Village for being granted the benefit of various pensions, their cases were not considered. This Court issued Rule nisi on 18.11.2008. Subsequently, the third respondent, namely, the Mandal Parishad Development Officer, Veeravasaram Mandala Parishad, Veeravasaram, West Godavari District, filed a counter affidavit in the matter denying the allegations made by the petitioner. In para-6(b) thereof, it is stated as under: “Further I advised that Sarpanch to conduct Grama Sabha and bring the eligible and left over eligible list to the notice of Grama Sabha and take a resolution and submit the both lists to the Special Officer, it will be forwarded to the District Collector for necessary sanction, after an enquiry to be conducted by the MHO.” In view of the statement made by the third respondent in his counter, which is extracted herein above, the learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that no further orders need be passed in the writ petition. In the circumstances, the writ petition is closed. No costs. ___________________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Date:21.04.2010 VGB