IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 20th DAY OF AUGUST 2019 BEFORE THE HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE ALOK ARADHE WRIT PETITION NO.5965 OF 2018 (GM - POLICE) BETWEEN:
M/s. PAI INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS LTD., A PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY INCORPORATED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDIAN COMPANIES’ ACT, 1956 AND HAVING ITS REGISTERED OFFICE AT NO.28/1A, 100 FEET ROAD, INDIRANAGAR, BENGALURU – 560 038. REPRESENTED BY ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR, SRI.RAJKUMAR PAI, S/O D.SRINIVASA PAI, R/AT NO.42, RAMASWAMY LAYOUT, NEW BYAPPANAHALLI EXTENSION, INDIRANAGAR POST, BENGALURU – 560 038. …PETITIONER (BY SRI.V.B.SHIVA KUMAR, ADVOCATE (ABSENT)) AND:
1. STATE OF KARNATAKA, VIDHANA SOUDHA, VIDHANA VEEDHI, BENGALURU – 560 001. REPRESENTED BY ITS CHIEF SECRETARY.
2. UNDER SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA, DEPARTMENT OF HOME, VIDHANA SOUDHA, VIDHANA VEEDHI, BENGALURU – 560 001.
3. THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, INFANTRY ROAD, BENGALURU – 560 001.
4. THE STATION HOUSE OFFICER, KONANAKUNTE POLICE STATION, BENGALURU – 560 062.
5. BHARATIYA PRAJA SENE, JILLA SAMITHI, (AMBEDKAR VAADA), ADDRESS: NIL, REPRESENTED BY ITS STATE PRESIDENT, SRI. MANJUNATH R., KONANA KUNTE, BENGALURU – 560 083. ...RESPONDENTS (BY SRI.VIJAYA KUMAR A. PATIL, AGA FOR R1 TO 4; NOTICE TO R5 IS SERVED AND UNREPRESENTED) THIS WRIT PETITION IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 AND 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO DECLARE RESPONDENT NO.5 AS AN ILLEGAL AND UNLAWFUL OUT FIT AND BANNING PROTEST UNDERTAKEN BY RESPONDENT NO.5 ON 10.02.2018 VIDE ANNEXURE – A AND ETC.
THIS WRIT PETITION COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING IN ‘B’ GROUP, THIS DAY, THE COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING:
O R D E R None for the petitioner.
Sri Vijay Kumar A. Patil, learned Additional Government Advocate for respondent Nos.1 to 4.
The petition is admitted for hearing and heard finally.
2. In this writ petition, petitioner, inter alia, has prayed for the following reliefs:
(i) for a Writ in the nature of certiorari, or any other appropriate writ or order or direction, declaring the 5th respondent as an illegal and unlawful out fit and banning protest undertaken by the 5th respondent on 10.02.2018 at Annexure ‘A’;
(ii) for an Order or direction, directing the respondents 1 to 4 to issue orders restraining the 5th respondent ‘Sena’ from conducting such illegal and unlawful protest, as against the petitioner business concern, as on 10.2.2018.
3. When the matter was taken up today, Sri.Vijay Kumar A. Patil, learned Additional Government Advocate for respondent Nos.1 to 4, on instructions, submitted that the respondent No.5 has not conducted ‘Dharana’ on 10.02.2018.
4. The said submission is taken on record.
5. In view of the aforesaid submission, nothing survives for adjudication in this writ petition.
Accordingly, the petition is dismissed as having become infructuous.
Sd/- JUDGE cp*