IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY Writ Petition No.9734 of 2009 Between: Tati Ramulu ..... Petitioner AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Secretary, Industries and Commerce (Mines) Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad and others .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri P.Roy Reddy Counsel for Respondent Nos.1 to 3: AGP for Mines & Geology Counsel for respondent No.4: M/s.K.M.J.D.Syamasundari, Addl.SC for Central Government The 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 mandamus declaring the 1st respondent`s Memo No.21534/M-III(2)/2005-2, dated 23.4.2009 as illegal, arbitrary, contrary to the provisions of the Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation Act, 1957 and the Mineral Concession Rules, 1960, and violative of Articles, 14 and 19(1)(g) of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents more particularly 1st respondent to take appropriate action for grant of mining lease in respect of iron ore in Sy.Nos.45/57, 45/58 and 45/60 of Motlatimmapuram village, Bayyaram Mandal, Khammam District, as sought for by the petitioner by his application dated 31.8.2005.” At the hearing, Sri P.Roy Reddy, learned Counsel for the petitioner, submitted that the cause of the Writ Petition does not survive for adjudication. Recording the aforesaid submission, the Writ Petition is dismissed as infructuous. As a sequel to dismissal of the Writ Petition, WPMP.No.12663 of 2009, filed by the petitioner for interim relief, is disposed of as infructuous. ______________________ (C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy, J) 29th June, 2011 lur