IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWELTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI WRIT PETITION NO : 4530 of 2002 Between: Geervani @ Sharada ..... PETITIONER AND The Regional Passport Officer, Secunderabad and two others. .....RESPONDENT(S) THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI W.P.No.4530 of 2002 ORDER: Assailing the action of the 1st respondent-Regional Passport Officer, Secunderabad, in not seizing the passport of the 3rd respondent in view of the pendency of Crime No.120 of 2002 for an offence punishable under Section 498-A IPC on the file of Kukatpally police station, against the 3rd respondent, the petitioner approached this Court and filed the present writ petition. 2. This Court by order dated 11-04-2002, directed the respondents 1 and 2 to impound the passport as an interim measure. 3. Sri Voosa Raghu, learned counsel for the petitioner, submits that the matter between the petitioner and the 3rd respondent being the wife and husband was settled and in fact, the passport, impounded pursuant to the orders of this Court, had already been released in favour of the 3rd respondent and on this, the learned counsel submits that the cause in the writ petition does not survive and the same has become infructuous. 4. Recording the same, this writ is dismissed as infructuous and the interim order granted on 11-04-2002 stands dissolved. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________________ 12th March 2010 KVR