APHC010146092021 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY,THE EIGHTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA WRIT PETITION NO: 8298 OF 2021 Between: 1. K UDAY, C ...Petitioner AND 1. THE STATE OF AP, Rep by its Principal Secretary, Excise Department, Secretariat, Velagapudi, Amaravathi, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh 2. The Director General of Police, Police Headquarters, Mangalagiri, Mangalagiri, Amaravati. 3. The Special Enforcement Bureau SEB, Head Quarters, Rangarao Street. Near Andhra Bank, Vijayawada. Rep. by the Commissioner. 4. The Assistant Commissioner, Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB), Eluru Division, EluruTown, 5. The Additional Superintendent of Police, Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB), Eluru Division, Eluru Town 6. The Station House Officer, Chintalapudi, Special Enforcement Bureau P.S, West Godavari District. ...Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: N ASHWANI KUMAR Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR PROHIBITION EXCISE The Court made the following order: THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA WRIT PETITION NO: 8298 of 2021 ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India with the following prayer for: “…to issue an appropriate writ or order or direction more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus questioning the action of the Respondents, more particularly the 7th and 8th Respondents herein in barging into the locked residential premises of the Petitioner by breaking the lock, without any search warrant, on the pretext of an anonymous information of the house holding/ containing non-duty-paid-liquor and registering an FIR.No.190 of 2021 dated 18.03.2021, without being any complaint as being illegal, arbitrary and in violation. of Articles 14, 19, 20(3) and 21 of the Constitution of India and consequently to quash the FIR.No.190 of 2021 dated 18.03.2021 registered by the 7th and 8th Respondents herein” 2. When the matter is taken up for hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petition may be disposed of, since the relief has become infructuous in this matter. 3. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home for the respondents is in attendance. 4. Recording the above said submission, the Writ Petition is dismissed as infructuous. There shall be no order as to costs. As a sequel thereto, miscellaneous petitions pending, if any, shall stand closed. _________________________________________ Dr. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA Date: 08.10.2025. Dvs HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE VENKATA JYOTHIRMAI PRATAPA W.P.No.8298 of 2021 Dated.08.10.2025 Dvs 190