THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.18573 of 2007 Dated: 19.07.2010 Between: K. Sambi Reddy. .. Petitioner. And The Karur Vysya Bank Limited, Central Office, Karur, New Delhi, And others. .. Respondents. ORDER: Aggrieved by the order dated 17.12.2005 passed by the General Manager of the Karur Vysya Bank Limited, whereby the petitioner was dismissed from service as a Bank Officer on certain irregularities alleged to have been committed by him, this writ petition is filed. There is no necessity of going into all the details. Today, when the matter came up for hearing, Sri C.R.Sridharan, learned counsel for the respondent Bank, submitted that following the judgment of the Supreme Court in Federal Bank Limited vs. Sagar Thomas & Others[1], this Court in V. Sriramulu vs. Karur Vysya Bank Limited and Others[2], held as under: “The Karur Vysya Bank no doubt obtained licence from the Reserve Bank of India. Nevertheless keeping in view the law laid down by the Supreme Court, it cannot be treated as a “State” for the purpose of Article 12 of Constitution and mandamus cannot be issued to it as the same does not perform any public duty.” Learned counsel for the petitioner did not dispute the aforesaid submission of the learned counsel for the respondent Bank. In view of the above and the ruling of this Court relied upon by the learned counsel for the respondents, this writ petition is not maintainable and the same is liable to be dismissed. Accordingly, this writ petition is dismissed. However, this will not preclude the petitioner from working out the remedies available to him as per law. _____________ C.V.RAMULU,J 19.07.2010 v v [1] (2003) 10 SCC 733 [2] 2006 (2) ALD 114