Pendekatla Yakaiah v. Union Of India,

HON'BLE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE DILIP B. BHOSALE AND THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE S.V. BHATT WRIT PETITION No. 5410 of 2015 Dt:17.06.2015 Between:

P.Yakaiah and others.

... Petitioners And Union of India, Rep. by its Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice (Legislative Department), New Delhi and others.

... Respondents

HON'BLE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE DILIP B. BHOSALE AND THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE S.V. BHATT WRIT PETITION No. 5410 of 2015 PC: (per the Hon'ble the Acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale) Heard learned counsel for the petitioners.

The instant writ petition challenges the provisions of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Ordinance No.3 of

promulgated on 12.01.2015 being illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable, unjust and unconstitutional and prayed for setting it aside. After filing of this writ petition, we are informed by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the Ordinance has been approved and made an Act and it has already come into force being Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2015, and in view thereof, he submits that the instant writ petition has rendered infructuous. He also submits that the present petitioners have filed a writ petition challenging the provisions of the Act. In the circumstances, the writ petition is disposed of as infructuous. Consequently, miscellaneous petitions, if any, also stand disposed of. _________________________ DILIP B. BHOSALE, ACJ ________________________ S.V. BHATT, J Dt:17.06.2015 kdl