Damacherla Kiran Kumar v. the State of Andhra Pradesh
Case brief
What is this about?
Infructuous dismissal - W.P. No. 10630/2023, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati, decided 16.07.2025 by Justice K. Sreenivasa Reddy. Petitioner Damacherla Kiran Kumar had challenged proceedings Rc.No.289/2018-C dated 17.04.2023 of the 4th respondent appointing a third party as Chairperson of PACS Ltd., Potlapadu, Medikonduru Mandal, Guntur District, alleging arbitrariness and breach of natural justice. On counsel's submission that the petition had become infructuous, the court dismissed it as infructuous with no order as to costs and closed pending miscellaneous petitions. No ruling on the merits of the appointment; of limited precedential value, relevant chiefly for searches on infructuous writ petitions concerning cooperative society (PACS) chairperson appointments in Guntur District.
What did the court decide?
Upon the submission of Sri D. Souri Babu, learned counsel for the petitioner, that the writ petition had become infructuous and that no further orders were necessary, the court recorded the submission on record and dismissed the writ petition as infructuous. The legality of the impugned appointment was not decided on merits.