THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.20822 OF 2006 DATED: 30.10.2007 Between: V. Ravi Raju .. Petitioner And The Principal Secretary, Environment, Forest, Science & Technology Department, Government of A.P., A.P. Secretariat, Hyderabad and another. .. Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.20822 OF 2006 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a Mandamus declaring the action of the 2nd respondent in issuing proceedings No.1058/APPCB/ESTT/E1/2006, dated 30.09.2006, as arbitrary and illegal; and consequently to direct the respondents to continue the petitioner as Chief Ministerial Officer of the Appellate Authority constituted under the provisions of Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981. Under the impugned proceedings, the petitioner, who was working as Chief Ministerial Officer with A.P. Pollution Control Appellate Authority, was recalled to the A.P. Pollution Control Board. While admitting the writ petition on 04.10.2006, this Court granted interim suspension of the impugned proceedings. Though a vacate stay petition is filed, learned counsel for the respondents placed before this Court a memo, dated 12.04.2007, issued by the 2nd respondent stating that the impugned proceedings have been withdrawn and the petitioner is permitted to continue as Chief Ministerial Officer with the A.P. Pollution Control Appellate Authority, until further orders. In view of the above, nothing survives in this writ petition for adjudication and the same has become infructuous. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. No order as to costs. ____________ C.V. RAMULU, J 30th October, 2007. IBL