THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PEITITON No. 4946 OF 2003 Dated 21st December, 2009 Between: Kursinga Murabai ………Petitioner And The District Collector, Adilabad and four others ………..Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri C. Damodar Reddy The Court made the following ORDER: In this writ petition, the petitioner sought for a mandamus to declare the inaction of respondent Nos.3 and 4 in taking steps to disqualify respondent No.5 from holding the post of Sarpanch of Sungapur Gram Panchayat, Thiryani Mandal, Adilabad District as she was having four living children, which attracts disqualification under Section 19 (3) of the Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (for short, ‘the Act’) as illegal and arbitrary. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner. A perusal of the record shows that respondent No.5 was elected as Sarpanch in the elections conducted on 14-08-2001. As the tenure of Sarpanch is five years under the provisions of the Act, respondent No.3 would have ceased to be the Sarpanch on the expiry of five year term in the year 2006. In view of the same, the cause in the writ petition does not survive for consideration. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed as infructuous. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition as infructuous, WPMP No. 6517 of 2009, filed by the petitioner for interim relief, is dismissed. C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated: 21st December, 2009 ks