HON’BLE SHRI G.S.SINGHVI, THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.24215 OF 2006 Between: J. Ramesh and seven others …Petitioners AND The State Election Commission, 3rd Floor, Buddha Bhavan, MG Road, Secunderabad – 500 003, Rep., by its Secretary and four others ...Respondents : O R D E R : Counsel for the petitioners : Shri S. Ramachandra Rao, Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Srinivas Counsel for respondent No. 1 : Shri V.V. Prabhakar Rao Counsel for respondent Nos. 2 to 5 : Government Pleader for Panchayat Raj 18th January, 2007 Per G.S.SINGHVI, CJ In this petition, the petitioner has made the following substantive prayer: “It is therefore necessary in the interests of justice that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue an appropriate writ, order or direction more particularly, one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the notification No. 2491/SEC-B2/2006, dt. 15/11/2006 of the 1st Respondent herein proposing to conduct elections to Gram Panchayats in Tirupathi Rural Mandal without reference to the finalization of the proposal of upgrading Tirupati Municipality to Municipal Corporation as arbitrary, illegal, unjust, violative of Article 14, apart from being amount to colourable exercise of power and consequentially set aside the same and pass such other order or orders as are deemed fit and proper in the circumstances of the case”. At the hearing, Shri S. Ramachandra Rao stated that the issue raised in the writ petition has become infructuous. In view of the statement of the learned counsel, the writ petition is disposed of as infructuous. G.S. SINGHVI, C.J. January 18, 2007 C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J. ks