IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 25727 of 1999 Between: J.Veera Reddy son of Jooka Reddy Terupol Village ,Kondapur Mandal, Medak District ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Secretary , Education Department The Govt of AP Secretariat, Hyderabad 2 The Commissioner and Director of School Education AP ,Saifabad, Hyderabad 3 The District Education Officer, Medak District at Sanga Reddy 4 The Mandal Parishad Development Officer Patancheru , Medak Dist 5 The Accountent General, AP ,Hyderabad .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to call for the records relating to the impugned Memo.No.2321/Ser.III.2/93.12 Education Department dt. 8/12/1994 and its consequential proceedings Rc.No.8294/B2/96 dated 10/09/1996 of the 1st and 3rd Respondent and judgment dt. 25/09/1998 passed in OA.No.6191/97 on the file of the AP.Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad and quash the same by holding it as illegal, irregular, unjust, arbitrary, constrary to the ruels inforces and violation of Articles 14 of the Constitutions of India by issuing a Writ of Certiorari or order or direction and to allow the Writ Petition with costs and consequently direct the respodents to regulate the gap period from 15/11/1974 to 2/02/1988 as on duty with all consequetial benefits such as arrears, pension etc; and to grant such other or further orders as deems fit and proper Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.S.SATYAM REDDY Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.M.RATNA REDDY (ADDL.S.C FOR C.G) The Court made the following : HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU Writ Petition No.25727 of 1999 ORDER: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice Ghulam Mohammed) This writ petition is filed challenging the judgment dated 25- 9-1998 passed in O.A.No.6191 of 1997 on the file of Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad. 2. The Tribunal after considering the rival contentions, passed the reasoned order and the relevant portion reads as under: “ Hence, in view of the circumstances, there is every reason to accept that the applicant absented himself after submitting joining report dt. 2-9-85 and did not pursue his case i.e. to join duty. Hence, I find the action of the Government in not regularizing the period from 2-9-85 to 2-2-88 is proper. Further, it can be seen that even though the applicant absented from duty for more than 10 years without permission and valid reason and in violation of FR.18 the Government took a very lenient view and treated the period of absence as dies non.” 3. A perusal of the impugned order clearly shows that there is dereliction of duty on the part of the petitioner and the Tribunal has recorded its findings with reference to record. In the circumstances, we do not see any infirmity in the impugned order. The writ petition is liable to be and is accordingly dismissed. No order as to costs. ___________________________ GHULAM MOHAMMED, J. ___________________ C.V.RAMULU, J. 17-07-2008 bsc