IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT: THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED and THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION NO. 4880 of 2004 Between: 1 Executive Director 6-1-85/9, Sarala Sadan, OPP. Telephone Bhavan Saifabad, Lakdi-Ka-Pool, Hyderabad-4 2 D.Rajendhira Prasad, son of D.Vara Prasad R/o # G2, Abhiteja Apartments, Behind Geeta Hospital, Chaitanyapur, Dilsukhnagar , Hyderabad-500 060 ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 Secrtary, Nivachan Sadan, The Election commissioner of India Ashok Road, New Delhi 2 The Secretary Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Govt of India New Delhi 3 The chief Electoral officer AP, Secretariat, Hyderabad 4 The Joint Chief Electoral Officer General Administration (Elections) Govt of AP Hyderabad 5 The District Election Officer The Commissioner Municipal corporation of Hyderabad Hyderabad 6 Secretary, Department of Home The State of AP Govt of AP Hyderabad ..... 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, order or direction particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the Rule 7(3) of the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994 in so far relating to political advertisement during General Elections and the consequential instructions of the respondents banning political advertisements through electronic media purportedly under Rule 7(3) of the Cable Television Network Rule, 1994 as illegal, void, inoperative unconstitutional and violative of Art. 14,19(1) (a) & (g), 19(2), 21 of the Constitution of the India and consequently direct the respondents to permit political advertisements through electronic made and pass Counsel for the Petitioner : Mr. RAVI SHANKAR JANDHYALA Counsel for the Respondents : GP FOR HOME The Court made the following : ORDER: (Per the Hon’ble Sri Justice Ghulam Mohammed) Sri Ravi Shankar Jandhyala, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners submits that the subject matter of the writ petition has become infructuous. 2. Recording the said submission, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________________ GHULAM MOHAMMED, J ______________________ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J Date: 14th July, 2009 KL/STP