IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 24932 of 2007 Between: P.S.N.Murthy, H.No.8-43/23/1/G Balaji Hills, Boduppal, Hyderabad ..... PET IT IONER AND 1 UCO Bank, Head office, 10 Barbourne Road Kolkata, rep by its Chairman & Managing Director 2 UCO Bank, Regional office, Road No.10, Banjara Hills Hyderabad-34, rep.by its Regional Manager & Disciplinary Authority 3 B.V.Jagadeeswara Rao, Chief officer & Enquiry officer UCO Bank, Regional Officer, Road No.10 Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-34 .....RESPONDENT (S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ or order or direction declaring the action of the Disciplinary Authority in initiating Disciplinary proceedings against the petitoner pursuant to the Charges sheet dated 23.11.06 issued to the petitioner in contrary to law and in total violation of principles of natural justice illegal, arbitrary, and consequently set aside the Enquiry proceedings conductd by the 3rd respondent Enquiry oﬃcer and further to direct the disciplinary authority and the Enquiry oﬃcer not to proceed further with the Disciplinary action initiated pursuant to the charge sheet dated 2.11.2006 and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.D.RAVISHANKAR RAO Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.V.AJAYAKUMAR The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.No.24932 of 2007 ORAL ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled seeking a Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in initiating disciplinary proceedings against the petitioner pursuant to the charge sheet dated 23.11.2006 issued to the petitioner as arbitrary and illegal. There is no necessity of going into all the details. It appears, no stay was granted in the writ petition and during t h e pendency of writ petition, the enquiry contemplated against the petitioner was completed and he was imposed with punishment of dismissal from service. Aggrieved by the said dismissal order, petitioner already ﬁled appeal before the competent authority. In view of the same, no cause survives in the writ petition for further adjudication and the writ petition has become infructuous. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed as having become infructuous. No order as to costs. ________________ C.V.RAMULU, J Date: 8.9.2008 DA THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.No.24932 of 2007 8.9.2008