IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN THURSDAY, THE 12TH NOVEMBER 2009 / 21ST KARTHIKA 1931 WP(C).No. 31944 of 2009(K) ------------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ------------------------ KERALA STATE CO-OPERATIVE CONSUMERS FEDERATION REPRESENTED BY ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR, GANDHI NAGAR, KOCHI-20. BY ADVS. MR.M.SASINDRAN MR.V.VENUGOPAL RESPONDENT(S): ------------------------- 1. THE STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF TAXES, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. THE COMMISSIONER OF EXCISE THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 3. THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF EXCISE ERNAKULAM. 4. TH DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF EXCISE ALAPPUZHA. 5. THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF EXCISE KANNUR. 6. THE DISTRICT COLLECTOR ERNAKULAM. 7. TH DISTRICT COLLECTOR, ALAPPUZHA. 8. THE DISTRICT COLLECTOR, KANNUR. BY GOVT. PLEADER MR.I.V.PRAMOD THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 12/11/2009, ALONG WITH WPC. NO.32000 OF 2009 THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: THOTTATHIL B. RADHAKRISHNAN, J. -------------------------------------- W.P.(C) Nos. 31944 & 32000 OF 2009 -------------------------------------- Dated this the 12th day of November, 2009 J U D G M E N T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Listed and taken up today on consent of parties. These Writ Petitions are filed by holders of FL-1 licence. Their claim was that the ban imposed by the State for sale of liquor on days of Bye-Elections and counting should be confined to the Constituency limit. An interim order was granted in all these cases, protecting also the power of the statutory authorities to act under Section 54 of the Abkari Act. In that view of the matter, no further questions of law or fact arises for decision except in the academic sense. The subject matter of these Writ Petitions has become infructuous with the passage of time, the Bye-Election having been over and the results declared. Therefore, without answering the questions of law, these Writ Petitions are closed as infructuous. THOTTATHIL B. RADHAKRISHNAN, Judge ps