HON'BLE SHRI G.S.SINGHVI, THE CHIEF JUSTICE W.P. NO.12142 OF 1995 Between: The Chirala Cooperative Spinning Mills Limited represented by its Managing Director, Chirala, Ongole District. .....Petitioner AND Appellate Authority under the Payment of Gratuity Act (Dy.Commissioner of Labour), Guntur and 5 others. .....Respondents ::ORDER:: Counsel for the Petitioner : Sri M.Srikanth for Sri M.Panduranga Rao Counsel for Respondents : none Dated 12/9/2006 This petition is directed against order dated 9.7.1993 passed by the Controlling Authority under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972. Learned counsel for the petitioner says that the writ petition has become infructuous and the same may be disposed of as such. In view of the statement made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the writ petition is disposed of as infructuous. While recording the aforesaid order, I consider it imperative to observe that if the counsel for the petitioner had pressed the writ petition, I would have dismissed the writ petition by applying the principle of de minimis and saddled the petitioner with exemplary costs for indulging in luxury litigation. G.S.SINGHVI, CJ Dt.12.9.2006 msv.