IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No. 9630 of 2006 and batch Between: R.Divakar Reddy ..... PETITIONER AND The General Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Command, Pune and 2 others. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: Counsel for the Respondents: The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE Ms. JUSTICE G. ROHINI WRIT PETITION Nos. 9630, 10326, 11525, 24779, 26006, 27223 and 27384 of 2006 And Writ Petition Nos.5792 and 22302 of 2007 COMMON ORDER : All these writ petitions relate to service matters of the members of the Armed Forces of Union of India. By notification dated 21.10.2009 issued under Section 5 (4) of the Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007, the Central Government established a Bench of Armed Forces Tribunal at Chennai w.e.f. 26.10.2009 which shall have jurisdiction within the territorial limits of the States Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. By virtue of the said notification, the powers and other authority becomes exercisable by the Tribunal constituted under the said notification w.e.f. 26.10.2009 and as per Section 34 of the Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007, all proceedings pending before this Court shall stand transferred to the Tribunal. Accordingly, there shall be a direction to the Registry to transmit the papers in all these cases to the Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench at Chennai within a period of two weeks from today. _____________ G. ROHINI, J. Date: 05.11.2009 Klp