IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO.18538 of 1997 Between: 1 M/s. Gurusarvabhouma Slab Co., Rep by its Prop. S. Indira. Bethamcherla, Kurnool Dist., 2 M/s. Gururaja Slabs and Minerals, Rep by its Prop. S. Indira. Bethamcherla, Kurnool Dist ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Dy. Director of Mines and Geology, Kurnool. 2 The Asst. Director of Mines and Geology, Kurnool. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a Writ, Order or Direction more particularly one in the nature of a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of respondents herein in insisting upon the payment of seignorage fee along with the dead rent for issuance of despatch permits as illegal, arbitrary and contrary to Rules 10, 12(5) (e) (f) & (iv) of the A.P.M.M. Concession Rules, 1966 and consequently direct the respondents to issue the transport permits on payment of dead rent / seignorage fee as per the Rule 12 (5) (f) (iv) of the said rules . Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.E.KALYAN RAM Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR INDUSTRIES & COMMERCE The Court made the following: ORDER: Petitioners filed the present writ petition seeking to declare the action of the respondents in insisting payment of seignorage fee along with dead rent for issuance of dispatch permits as illegal and arbitrary and consequently to direct the respondents to issue transport permits on payment of Dead Rent/Seignorage Fee. When the matter is taken up today for hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that in view of the interim orders passed by this Court in WPMP No.22477 of 1997, dated 05.12.1997, no further orders are required to be passed and the cause in the writ petition has become infructuous. Recording the said submission, the writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. No costs. _______________ N.V. RAMANA, J. Date: 15.03.2005 Nsr ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1 The Dy. Director of Mines and Geology, Kurnool. 2 The Asst. Director of Mines and Geology, Kurnool. 3 Two CCs to GP for Industries and Commerce, High Court Buildings, Hyderabad (OUT) 4 Two CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{KCS}