Allahabad High Court
SANJU RAWAT AND 2 OTHERSversusSTATE OF U.P. AND 2 OTHERS
- Decided
Holding
The writ petition is dismissed as infructuous because no cause of action remains.
Summary
The petitioners, Sanju Rawat and two others, filed a writ petition before the Allahabad High Court. They later informed the Court that their grievance had already been resolved by the Agra Development Authority, rendering the petition without a surviving cause of action. The petitioners’ counsel moved that the petition be dismissed as infructuous, and the respondents’ counsel raised no objection. The Court considered the submission that no cause of action remained. Consequently, the Court dismissed the writ petition as infructuous.
Issues considered
- What is the appropriate disposition of a writ petition when the petitioner’s grievance has been fully redressed and no cause of action survives?
Subjects
- writ petition
- infructuous
- cause of action
- high court
- dismissal
Judgment
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
WRIT - C No. - 28697 of 2023
Sanju Rawat And 2 Others
.....Petitioner(s)
Versus
State Of U.P. And 2 Others
.....Respondent(s)
Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Nipun Singh, Kartikeya Saran, Suchita
Mehrotra
Counsel for Respondent(s) : CSC, Dharmendra Singh Chauhan,
Suresh C. Dwivedi
Court No. - 21
HON'BLE MAHESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI, J.
HON'BLE KUNAL RAVI SINGH, J.
1. Heard Sri Nipun Singh, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri D.S.
Chauhan, learned counsel for Agra Development Authority and Sri Hare
Ram Tripathi, learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioners on the instructions submits that no
cause of action survives as the grievance of the petitioners has already
redressed by the Agra Development Authority, therefore, the instant writ
petition may be dismissed as infructuous.
3. Learned counsel for the respondents have no objection to the same.
4. Accordingly, the instant writ petition is dismissed as having become
infructuous.
(Kunal Ravi Singh,J.) (Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J.)
March 9, 2026
Priya
Digitally signed by :-
PRIYA KUSHWAHA
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad
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