IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 23095 of 2005 Between: Vanugu Nagaraju S/o.late Venugu Pothuraju R/o.Thatiparthi Village, V.Madugula Mandal, Visakhapatnam District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Joint Director of Fisheries, Visakhapatnam. 2 The District Collector Visakhapatnam. 3 Sri Trinadha Matsya Swadeshi Sahakara Sangham, V.Madugula, rep by its President Sri Dalai Kondal Rao S/o.Not nown aged 45 years R/o.V.Madugula (V&M) Visakhapatnam District. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: Mr. T.V.SRIDEVI for MR.E.V.BHAGIRATHA RAO Counsel for Respondent No.3: MR. SREEMANNARAYANA V The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “It is, therefore, prayed that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue an order, direction or writ, more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring that the action of respondents No.1 and 2 in not finalising the pending proposal to set-up a separate Inland Fishing Society of displaced tribal families of Tarakarama Reservoir, Thatiparthi, for the purpose of giving lease of fishing rights in the said reservoir for the ensuing two year period is an arbitrary and unlawful dereliction of duty, and further direct the respondents 1 and 2 to forthwith finalise the proposal and grant lease of fishing rights to the society so formed for the coming two year period.” Smt. T.V.Sridevi, learned counsel appearing for Sri E.V.Bhagiratha Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that since the period of two years for which the petitioner was claiming leasehold rights expired, the cause in the writ petition does not survive for consideration. In view of the same, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition as infructuous, WPMP.No.29632 of 2005 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 8th JULY, 2008. kvni