IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF JUNE, TWO THOUSAND NINE ONLY WRIT PETITION No.27944 of 2007 Between: Voora Cheruvu Ayakattu Neeti Viniyogadarula Abhivruddi Committee, Venkata Krishnapuram, Reptd., by its President Bommineni Brahmaiah, Venkata Krishnapuram village, Marripudi Mandal, Prakasam District. … Petitioner And The State of Andhra Pradesh, reptd., by its Principal Secretary to Irrigation & Command Area Development Department, Secretariat, Saifabad, Hyderabad and seven others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: Sri Nimmagadda Satyanarayana. Counsel for the respondents: --- This Court made the following: ORDER:- This Writ Petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “…to issue a writ, order or direction, more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of respondents 1 to 7 in entrusting the work to the 8th respondent users committee, pursuant to proceedings DB/D2/W/5/FDR-6/07 215 dt.10-7-2007 issued by the 3rd respondent as illegal, irregular, arbitrary, malafide, without jurisdiction, violative of the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Farmers' Management of Irrigation Systems Act 1997 and offends article 14 of Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents to grant work to the petitioner's society”. At the hearing, Sri Nimmagadda Satyanarayana, learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted that in view of the averment contained in the counter-affidavit filed by respondent No.3 stating that the work in question was entrusted to respondent No.8 and that it has executed the said work, the cause in the Writ Petition does not survive for consideration; and that the Writ Petition may be dismissed as infructuous. In view of the same, the Writ Petition is dismissed as infructuous. As a sequel to dismissal of the Writ Petition, WPMP No.36546 of 2007 is also dismissed as infructuous. ------------------------------------ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:01-6-2009 MNR