1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JODHPUR -------------------------------------------------------- CIVIL WRIT No. 2170 of 1997 SHIV KUMAR GARG V/S STATE & ORS Mr. RK SINGHAL, for the appellant / petitioner Mr. BL BHATI, AGA, for the respondent Date of Order : 3.1.2008 HON'BLE SHRI N P GUPTA,J. ORDER ----- Vide impugned order Annexure-10 the petitioner was black listed only for a period of five years. Annexure-10 is dated 20.11.1996. The writ petition was filed on 12.5.1997 wherein show cause notice was issued on 5.7.1997. Then, the petition was admitted on 27.8.1997. Along with the writ petition a stay application was also filed wherein on 5.7.97 notice of stay was issued. Then, vide order dt. 12.1.1998 operation of the order dt. 20.11.1996 was stayed. Then, application under Article 226(3) was filed which was dismissed on 18.3.1998. Thereafter the stay matter was heard, and vide order dt. 6.5.1998, the interim order passed by this Court was vacated. Thus, the fact remains that the period of time for which the order impugned being 2 Annexure-10 was to be operative has already expired, and the writ petition remains only academic, rather for all intend and purposes it has become infructuous. Accordingly, the same is dismissed as having rendered academic. ( N P GUPTA ),J. /Sushil/