The court found that the writ petition was dismissed as infructuous due to lack of surviving cause of action.

ORDER:

Heard M/ s.CKR Associates, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and Sri N.Sreedhar Reddy, learned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents.

2. The petitioner approached the Court seeking prayer as under:

“…to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus:

a) Declaring the action of the 1^st Respondent in rejecting the application dt.27.08.2024 for Standing Clearance for grant of T-GNA for import of power through Bilateral or Collective IEX transaction for month of September, 2024 as un- authorized, as being bereft of any proper reasoning, without any foundation in fact, based on an ex-facie false pretence and ulterior motive, illegal, arbitrary, without jurisdiction, besides being contrary to the orders of this Hon’ble Court in W.P.No.22000 of 2024 to the provisions under Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (Connectivity and General Network Access to the Inter-State Transmission System) Regulations, 2022, and the provisions of the Electricity Act , 2003, and besides being violative of petitioner’s rights guaranteed under Articles 14 and 19(1)(g)

of the Constitution of India; and, b) Directing the 1^st Respondent to consider and give Standing Clearance for grant of T-GNA through Collective IEX transactions pursuant to petitioner’s application dt.27.08.2024 for month of September, 2024 and subsequent periods;

c) and/or pass such other order or orders as this Hon’ble Court deems fit and proper in the interest of justice.”

3. It is represented by the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner that the cause of action in the present writ petition does not survive for adjudication, any more.

4. Bringing the said submission of the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner on record, the w rit petition is dismissed as infructuous. How ever, there shall be no order as to costs.

As a sequel, the miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in the Writ Petition shall also stand closed.