- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC-D:7251 WP No. 104601 of 2018 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, DHARWAD BENCH DATED THIS THE 2ND DAY OF JUNE 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PRADEEP SINGH YERUR WRIT PETITION NO. 104601 OF 2018 (S-RES) BETWEEN: SHRI. PRAKASH GALEMMANAVAR, S/O. SRI. DURGAPPA, AGED 56 YEARS, ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, HUBBALLI-DHARWAD MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, HUBBALLI, DHARWAD DISTRICT. …PETITIONER (BY SRI. VIJAYAKUMAR, ADVOCATE FOR SRI. SUNIL S. DESAI, ADVOCATE) AND: 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA, REPRESENTED BY ITS UNDER SECRETARY, URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT-2, VIKAS SOUDHA, BANGALORE-560001. 2. THE COMMISSIONER, HUBBALLI-DHARWAD MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, HUBBALLI, DHARWAD DISTRICT. 3. THE KARNATAKA LOKAYUKTA, REPRESENTED BY ITS REGISTRAR, M.S. BUILDING, DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR VEEDHI, BANGALORE-560001. 4. THE ADDITIONAL REGISTRAR OF ENQUIRIES-8, KARNATAKA LOKAYUKTA, M.S. BUILDING, DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR VEEDHI, BANGALORE-560001. …RESPONDENTS (BY SRI. P.N. HATTI, HCGP FOR R1; SRI. G.I. GACHCHINAMATH, ADVOCATE FOR R2; SRI. SANTOSH B. MALAGOUDAR, ADVOCATE FOR R3 & R4) VIJAYALAKSHMI M KANKUPPI Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA DHARWAD BENCH - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC-D:7251 WP No. 104601 of 2018 THIS WRIT PETITION IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO ISSUE OF THE IMPUGNED ORDER BEARING NO.NA.AA.E.72, AHD 2017 DATED 02.04.2018 PASSED BY THE 1ST RESPONDENT VIDE ANNEXURE-M AND THE IMPUGNED CHARGE MEMO BEARING NO.UPLOK-1/DE/208/2018/ ARE-8 DATED 04.06.2018 ISSUED BY THE 4TH RESPONDENT VIDE ANNEXURE-N AND AFTER PERUSAL SET ASIDE THE SAME BY ISSUING WRIT IN THE NATURE OF CERTIORARI IN SO FAR AS PETITIONER IS CONCERNED AND ETC. THIS PETITION COMING ON FOR ORDERS THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: ORAL ORDER (PER: THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PRADEEP SINGH YERUR) Learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for respondents are present. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner filed a memo stating that the petitioner died on 10.06.2023. The legal representatives of the petitioner having not been brought on record and seeks for dismissal of this petition for having been abated. 3. Memo and submission are placed on record. 4. Petition is dismissed as abated. Sd/- (PRADEEP SINGH YERUR) JUDGE CKK CT-MCK List No.: 1 Sl No.: 1