1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State respondents through video conferencing in view of COVID-19 pandemic.
2. By means of present petition the petitioner has prayed for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondents to issue caste certificate of scheduled caste to the petitioner, looking to the forthcoming Panchayat Elections.
3. Today, when the matter has been taken up, it is has been informed by learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel that in the interregnum period the Panchayat Elections have already been held and therefore the cause of action in the present writ petition does not survive.
4. Looking into the prayer made in the writ petition and in the light of the submissions made by learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel, the cause of action does not survive and the writ petition is accordingly dismissed as infructuous.
5. However, respondent no. 2 may pass appropriate orders, in accordance with law.
Order Date :- 30.4.2021 A. Verma (Alok Mathur, J.)