THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WP No. 1824 of 2011 ORDER: This writ petition has been instituted by 48 individuals seeking for a writ of mandamus for declaring the action of the respondents in not regularizing their services in Group D services as illegal. The observation of the petitioners is that they are all working with Salar Jung Museum at Hyderabad. Learned Standing Counsel for Salar Jung Museum Sri R.S.Murthy, has drawn my attention to Annexure 1 of the counter affidavit filed by the Director of Museum in the above matter wherein the notification dated 31.3.2010 issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India, conferring power of adjudication under sub-section (2) of Section 14 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, on the Central Administrative Tribunal with effect from 15.4.2010. In the said notification, Salar Jung Museum is included at Sl. No. 200 of the Schedule. Consequently, with effect from 15.4.2010, the jurisdiction to entertain service disputes at the first instance would lie with the Central Administrative Tribunal Bench. Hence, this writ petition which is instituted on 30.1.2011 is not maintainable and is accordingly dismissed. But, however, without costs. In the circumstances, the Registry is directed to return the original papers, very immediately if any filed by the petitioners so as to enable them to invoke the jurisdiction of the Central Administrative Tribunal Bench at Hyderabad. The writ petition is dismissed only on the ground that the writ petitioners cannot approach this court at the first instance in view of the judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in L.Chandra Kumar v. Union of India[1]. --------------------------------- Nooty Ramamohana Rao, J knk 17th March 2011 [1] AIR 1997 SC 1125