IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No. 17074 of 2000 Between: Mailapalli Somayya, S/o. Saidaiah, Palanadu Wines, Shop. No. 2, Municipal Shoping Complex, B.R.Stadium, Guntur Town & District. ..... PETITIONER AND The Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Guntur. .....RESPONDENT 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 an appropriate Writ, Order or direction mostly one which is in the nature of a Writ of Mandamus declaring the order in Notice dated 8.9.2000 of the Respondent as illegal, arbitrary, unconstitutional, unjustified, and unsustainable and set aside the same holding that the petitioner is entitled to conduct the business in selling the liquor under Form TL-24 issued by the Excise Authorities at Shop No.2 of Municipal Shoping Complex, B.R.Stadium, Guntur. Counsel for the Petitioner : Mr.P.VEERA REDDY Counsel for Respondent : Mr.T.S.VENKATARAMANA/ Mr.BADETI VENKATA RATHNAM The Court made the following : ORDER: Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that no cause survives in this writ petition and it has become infructuous. Recording the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, this Writ Petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. No order as to costs. _____________ N.V.RAMANA, J Date: 27.6.2005 DA To 1. The Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Guntur. 2. Two CD copies.