IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD DATE: 20.02.2026 Between :

Balaji Talkies, Dammapet, Bhadradri District T.S.

Rep., by its Manager M. Subba Rao and 47 others.

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… Petitioners AND The State of Telangana., Rep by its Principal Secretary, Home (General. A) Department, TS Secretariat, Hyderabad – 500 022, and seventeen others.

… Respondents.

O R D E R:

This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking the following relief:

“…To issue an appropriate Writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the Respondents in not fixing the rate of admission for the Petitioners’ theaters as per their applications dt.04/12/2019, 05/12/2019, 06/12/2019, 07/12/2019, 09/12/2019, 10/12/2019, 13/12/2019, 16/12/2019, 17/12/2019, 18/12/2019 and 19/12/2019 as illegal, null, void and arbitrary…….”

2. Mr. K.J. Venkatesh, learned counsel appearing on behalf of M/s. Ch. Jayakrishna, learned Counsel for the petitioners, submits that the cause in this writ petition does not survive for adjudication and the petition has become infructuous.

3. Recording the said submission, the Writ Petition is dismissed as infructuous. No order as to costs.

Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in the Writ Petition, shall stand closed.

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N. TUKARAMJI, J