THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN Dated this the 12th day of October 2009. Writ Petition No. 27792 of 2008. Between: Syed Ahmed Babeeruddin ……Petitioner. Vs. The Controller, Legal Metrology, Golconda X Road, PWD Building, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad. ……..Respondent. THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN Writ Petition No. 27792 of 2008. ORAL ORDER: (Per GR,J) The petitioner asserts to be in the business of paste flour operating from Hyderabad under the name and style of ‘Moona Traders’. It is a registered dealer, under the APGST Act, and employs for his business purposes weighing machines, which are regulated by the respondent under the provisions of the A.P. Standards of Weights and Measurements (Enforcement) Act, 1985 and the relevant Rules, the A.P. Standards Weights and Measurements (Enforcement) Rules 1986. The grievance herein is with regard to renewal of licenses for the weighing machines utilized by the petitioner. The petitioner alleges that the authorities working under the administrative control of the respondent and agents are collecting illegal amounts for receipt of renewal fee and processing of renewal applications and seeks a mandamus to the respondent to facilitate collection of renewal fee through the E-Seva matrix. The learned Government Pleader for Civil Supplies, on instructions, states that in so far as Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy Districts are concerned, from today onwards i.e. 12.10.2009 license and renewal fee are being collected through E-Seva and that this facility will be extended to other parts of the State in due course of time and shortly In the light of the above submission by the learned Government Pleader for Civil Supplies, the substantive grievance in the writ petition does not survive for adjudication. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed as infructuous. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ GODA RAGHURAM,J __________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J 12.10.2009. KRB. THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN Writ Petition No. 27792 of 2008. Dated: 12th October 2009.