2025:UHC:5000-DB 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL THE HON’BLE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. G. NARENDAR AND THE HON’BLE JUSTICE MR. ALOK MAHRA Writ Petition (M/B) No.135 of 2025 16 June, 2025 Purnagiri Taxi Association --Petitioner Versus Zila Panchayat Champawat and Others --Respondents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Presence:- Mr. Nivesh Bahuguna, learned counsel for the petitioner. Mr. C. S. Rawat, learned counsel for respondent no.1. Ms. Rajni Supyal, learned Brief Holder for the State. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JUDGMENT : (per Mr. G. Narendar C. J.) Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Brief Holder for the State and learned counsel for respondent no.1. 2. The petition came to be instituted being aggrieved by the grant of rights to ferry passengers to a particular organization running taxies, during the Purnagiri fair. 2025:UHC:5000-DB 2 3. This Court, after hearing, was pleased to issue directions and further directed the respondents to permit all taxi operators. 4. It is now submitted that the fair is over and the contract, awarding rights to ferry passengers, has also come to an end and in that view, the writ petition has been rendered infructuous. 5. The submission is placed on record. 6. Writ petition is disposed of as having been rendered infructuous. 7. The hard disk supplied may be returned to Ms. Rajni Supyal, learned Brief Holder for the State. (G. NARENDAR, C. J.) (ALOK MAHRA, J.) Dated: 16.06.2025 BS