IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 17343 of 2008 Between: 1 M/s. Sri Venkata Subba Raju Rice Mill Kamavarapukota, West Godavari District, Rep. by its Contractor Kaki Vasudeva Rao 2 M/s. Sree Subba Raju Rice Mill Kamavarapukota, West Godavari District, Rep. by its Partner K.L.V. Narayana Rao 3 M/s. Lakshmi Modern Rice Mill Negadevulapadu, Denduluru Mandal, West Godavari District, Rep. by its Proprietor Paladugu Satyanarayana 4 M/s. Sri Lakshmi Venkateswara Rice & Flour Mill Chintalapdui, West Godavari District, Rep. by its Managing partner Mada Satyanarayana 5 M/s. Sri Venkateswara Traders, Chintalapudi, West Godavari District, Rep. by its Proprietor Nukala Koteswara Rao 6 M/s. Sri Venkata Sai Lakshmi Traders Pedavegi, Pedavegi Mandal, West Godavari District, Rep. by its Proprietor, N. Veeranjaneyulu 7 M/s. Sri Lakshmi Ganapathi Traders Chintalapudi, West Godavari District, Rep. by its Proprietor, S. Sreenivasa Rao ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 Government of Andhra Pradesh Ministry of Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution Department of Public Distribution, Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi. 2 The General Manager, Food Corporation of India HACA Bhavan, Hill Fort Road, Hyderabad. 3 Food Corporation of India District Office, Jubilee Road,Tadepalligudem-534 101 Rep. by its District Manager. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a writ or order or direction more particularly one in their nature of writ of Mandamus 1. Declaring the proceedings No. 167(25)/2007-PY-1 dt. 9-6-2008 issued by the 1st respondent modifying the price of levy rice for the Kharif Marketing season 2007-2008 as arbitrary illegal, ultra vires violative of the petitioner's rights guaranteed under Article 14, 19 (1)(g) and 300A of the Constitution of India 2. Declaring the action of the Respondents in unilaterly making deductions from the running bills of their petitioners pursuant to the proceedings of the 1st Respondent dt. 9-6-2008 as arbitrary, illegal, ultra vires violative of the petitioner's rights guaranteed under Article 14, 19 (1)(g) and 300 A of the Constitution of India. and pass such other order or orders Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.P.BALAJI VARMA Counsel for the Respondents: MR.A.RAJASHEKAR REDDY (ASST SOLICITOR GEN) The Court made the following : ORDER: Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that no cause of action survives in this writ petition and seeks permission of this Court to withdraw the writ petition. Permission as sought for is accorded, and the writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn. _________________________ (B. Seshasayana Reddy, J.) 24th October, 2008 Js.