IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION No.16850 of 2008 BETWEEN B. Srinivasa Appa Rao. ... PETITIONER AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by the District Collector, East Godavari District, Kakinada and five others. ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: MR. K. CHIDAMBARAM Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR IRRIGATION & CAD MR. T. NIRANJAN REDDY FOR R6 The Court made the following order: ORDER: Petitioner seeks a direction by way of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents 1 to 4 in not closing the channel excavated unauthorisedly by the sixth respondent in Sy.No.1015 of Pallamkurru village to draw water to the prawn/fish tanks in the lands covered by Sy.Nos.1015, 1015/1, 1016/2, 1017/1, 1017/2, 1018 and 1035 of Pallamkurru village, East Godavari District as illegal and arbitrary. 2. When the matter is taken up, the learned Government Pleader has produced the report sent by the Deputy Executive Engineer to the Executive Engineer, Godavari Central Division, Dowlaiswaram stating that the unauthorized channel in Sy.No.1015 excavated by the sixth respondent has been closed on 18.10.2008. Learned Government Pleader also placed on record a copy of the letter dated 18.10.2008 sent by the petitioner acknowledging the closure of the said channel dug by the sixth respondent. 3. In view of the said report and the acknowledgement by the petitioner, there is no surviving cause for adjudication in this writ petition. Placing on record the said report and the letter dated 18.10.2008, this writ petition is closed. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________ R. SUBHASH REDDY, J June 13, 2011 DSK