WP(C) 3376/2011 BEFORE THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE B.P. KATAKEY The petitioner by the present petition has prayed for a direction to the respondent authority not to settle Kandulimari Fishery for the Panchayat year 2 011-12 i.e. from 01.07.2011 to 30.06.2012 without inviting any tender as require d under the provisions of Assam Panchayat Act, 1994 and the Rules framed thereun der contending inter alia that the Anchalik Panchayat is making an attempt to se ttle the said Fishery without inviting any tender. Mr. Roy, learned State counsel, on the basis of the written instruction dated 10.08.2011 received from the Executive Officer, Juria Anchalik Panchayat h as submitted that due to certain litigation the NIT could not be issued earlier and since the said litigation being WP(C) No.6297/2010 has been disposed of vide order dated 23.06.2011, the process for settlement of the fishery is on and in fact the NIT dated 31.07.2011 has been issued. The learned counsel for the petitioner, therefore, submits that the writ petition may accordingly be disposed of. Since the process for settlement has been initiated by issuing the NIT, no lis survive in this present writ petition to be decided. Hence the writ petition stands closed and accordingly disposed of.