IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE G.CHANDRAIAH WRIT APPEAL No.1655 of 2008 (Writ Appeal under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the Order dated 14/11/2008 in WP NO : 24809 OF 2008 on the file of the High Court.) Between: Nadigadi Boastmen Labour Contract Coopertive Society, rep.by its President Y.S Kumar L.Gannavaram, P.Gannavaram Mandal, East Godavari District ..... APPELLANT AND 1 State of A.P. rep.by its Principal Secretary Mines& Gelogy, Industries & Commerce Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad 2 Sand Auction Committee, rep.by its Chairman cum Joint Collector, Kakinada, East Godavari District. 3 The Asst. Director Cum Convenor, Mines & Gelogy, Near RTC Complex, Rajahmundry. .....RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Appellant : MR.ADDEPALLI SURYANARAYANA Counsel for the Respondents : GP FOR MINES AND GEOLOGY The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE D.S.R. VARMA AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH WRIT APPEAL No.1655 of 2008 ORAL JUDGMENT: (per the Hon’ble Sri Justice D.S.R.Varma) Heard learned counsel appearing for the appellant as well as the learned Government Pleader for Mines and Geology appearing for respondents. 2. This writ appeal is directed against the common order, dated 14-11-2008, passed by a learned single Judge of this Court in W.P.No.24809 of 2008 (along with W.P.Nos.19290, 24508 and 25004 of 2008). 3. Appellant is the petitioner and respondents are respondents in W.P.No.24809 of 2008. 4. For the sake of convenience, in this judgment, the parties will be referred to as per their array in the writ petition. 5. It appears that through the impugned common order, dated 14-11-2008, the learned single Judge, while disposing of the batch of writ petitions i.e., W.P.Nos.19290, 24508, 24809 and 25004 of 2008, directed the Chief Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh, to conduct an enquiry, by constituting a Committee, with regard to the alleged irregularities committed in the auction of sand reaches at Godavari River in East Godavari District, held on 25-04-2008. It was further directed that the said Committee, which was so directed to be constituted, shall enquire into the aspects, which are specified in the impugned common order. 6. It is the main contention of the petitioner that though the writ petitions were filed challenging the notification, dated 03-11-2008, the learned single Judge had directed to cause enquiry with regard to the alleged irregularities committed in the auction held on 25-04- 2008 relating to other reaches, but not in relation to the reach, which is the subject matter in W.P.No.24809 of 2008 filed by the petitioner. So the enquiry as regards the irregularities that were directed to be gone into by the Committee is nothing to do with the grievance of the petitioner in W.P.No.24809 of 2008. In other words, the contentions raised in the present writ petition are different from the contentions raised in the other connected writ petitions and the said contentions were not answered. However, having regard to the proximity of the subject matter in all the writ petitions, regardless of the grievances raised by the respective petitioners, the entire batch of writ petitions have been disposed of with certain directions. 7. A perusal of the impugned common order, dated 14-11-2008, reveals that the merits in W.P.No.24809 of 2008 have not been gone into by the learned single Judge while disposing of the batch of writ petitions. Therefore, it should be construed that though the present writ petition was included in the batch of writ petitions, the directions given by the learned single Judge in the impugned common order have to be treated as not applicable to the present writ petition. 8. It has been brought to the notice of this Court by both the parties that pursuant to the disposal of the above batch of writ petitions, subsequent notification, dated 27-11-2008, had been issued and challenging the said notification, the petitioner herein had filed another writ petition W.P.No.27145 of 2008. 9. In that view of the matter, the factum of considering or not considering the claim of the petitioner in the present writ petition, while disposing of the batch of writ petitions, fades into irrelevancy, at this stage, for the simple reason that pursuant to the orders passed by the learned single Judge, a fresh notification had been issued, which has become the subject matter in W.P.No.27145 of 2008. 10. Therefore, the writ appeal is disposed of, at the stage of admission, with a liberty to the petitioner to ventilate all its grievances in the pending writ petition W.P.No.27145 of 2008. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________________ JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA __________________________ JUSTICE G.CHANDRAIAH 17-12-2008. Msr. THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE D.S.R. VARMA AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH WRIT APPEAL No.1655 of 2008 17-12-2008 (Msr)