THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO. 18702 of 2007 Dated 24th June, 2010 Between: A.Gurunatham and others …Petitioners And The Government of Andhra Pradesh rep. By its Secretary and three others …Respondents Counsel for the petitioners : Sri K.Vinay Kumar Counsel for respondent No.1: G.P for Agriculture Counsel for respondent No.2: Sri Deepak Bhattacharjee Counsel for respondent Nos.3 & 4: None appeared The Court made the following ORDER: In this writ petition, the petitioners have challenged deduction of crop insurance premium from the crop loans released/to be released to them as illegal. At the hearing, it is represented by the learned Government Pleader appearing for respondent No.1 and the learned Standing Counsel appearing for respondent No.2- Agricultural Insurance Company of India Limited that this writ petition is liable to be dismissed for two reasons, namely; that the Khariff and Rabi crop seasons of 2007 and 2008, for which the writ petition is filed, has already been over and that the issue raised in this writ petition is squarely covered by the judgment of the Division Bench of this Court in Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham v. Union of India and others[1]. Having carefully perused the record, I find merit in these submissions of the learned counsel. As the crop seasons of 2007 and 2008 have been over, the cause in this writ petition does not survive for consideration. In any event, the Division Bench in the above said judgment upheld the validity of the crop insurance scheme. Therefore, on both these grounds, this Writ Petition is dismissed. As a sequel to dismissal of the Writ Petition, interim order, dated 05.09.2007, is vacated and WPMP No.24032 of 2007 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 24th June, 2010 lur [1] 2002 (2) ALD 486 (DB)