IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:12286 of 2002 Between: Pamidipadu Gram Panchayat Rep. by its Sarpanch, Lam Achayamma W/o. Koteswara Rao R/o. Pamidipadu Village, Narasaraopet Mandal, Guntur District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 District Collector Guntur. 2 Assistant Director of Fisheries Fisheries Department,x Guntur.` 3 Divisional Panchayat Officer Narasaraopet, Guntur District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.P.GOVIND REDDY Counsel for the Respondents: NONE APPEARED The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled for the following substantive relief: “For all the reasons stated in the accompanying aﬃdavit, it is prayed that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue a Writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate Writ, order or direction declaring the action of the Respondents 1 and 2 in interfering with the jurisdiction and control of the petitioner Gram Panchayat in granting ﬁshery rights over the Minor Irrigation Tank (Ranganayakamma Cheruvu) situated with in its control as illegal, arbitrary and contrary to the provisions of Section 56(1) (b) of the A.P.Panchayat Raj Act, 1994.” At the hearing, it has come out that the term of the Sarpanch, who represented the petitioner Gram Panchayat in the writ petition expired and the Gram Panchayat has not taken steps to substitute the succeeding Sarpanch to represent it. In view of the same, the writ petition is dismissed with liberty to the petitioner to ﬁle fresh proceedings at it’s option. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition, interim order, dated 09.09.2002 is vacated, WPMP.No.15216 of 2002 is dismissed and WPMP.No.23066 of 2002 and WVMP.No.2783 of 2002 are disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 17th OCTOBER, 2008. kvni